Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Don Marquis

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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Work is a four letter word!

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bob Ross

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul