Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Work

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Shakarian, David

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

12.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

13.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

19.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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.

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Bob Ross

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

28.

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

Halas, George

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Billings, Josh

42.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton