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

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

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Peter Drucker

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.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Marquis, Don

12.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

15.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

18.

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

David Shore

20.

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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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.

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Prince, Ray

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

34.

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

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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.

37.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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

39.

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

40.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Jong, Erica

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann