Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Work

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Huxley, Aldous

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Robert Morley

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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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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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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

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Riley, Pat

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

Oprah Winfrey

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Bob Ross

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

Jong, Erica

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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.

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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.

Robert Benchley

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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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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 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

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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