Motivational Quotes

Work

There is no substitute for hard work.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Barzan, Gerald

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Don Marquis

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

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

10.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

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

Pavlova, Anna

12.

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

13.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

14.

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

15.

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

Blow, Susan

16.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

17.

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

18.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

20.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

21.

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

22.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

23.

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

24.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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.

John Ruskin

26.

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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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

28.

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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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

30.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

31.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

32.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

33.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

34.

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

35.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

37.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

38.

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

Hal Lancaster

39.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

40.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

42.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

43.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

44.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

45.

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

Howard Newton

46.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

47.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

48.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

49.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

50.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell