Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Voltaire

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.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thomas A. Edison

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Voltaire

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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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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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

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

Peter Drucker

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

Huxley, Aldous

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Halas, George

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Herbert, George

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

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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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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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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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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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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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

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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 way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack