Motivational Quotes

Work

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

- Bob Ross

Best Quotes about Work

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

38.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin