Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Reagan, Ronald

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Howard Newton

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

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

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

Work is a four letter word!

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

10.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

12.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

13.

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

14.

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

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

18.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

19.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

20.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

21.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

22.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

23.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

24.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

25.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

27.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

28.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

30.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

Barack Obama

32.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

33.

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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

35.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

39.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

40.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

42.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

43.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

45.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

46.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.