Motivational Quotes

Work

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

- Foster, Jodie

Best Quotes about Work

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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

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

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

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Wilde, Oscar

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Bob Ross

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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.

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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Jong, Erica

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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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

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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

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.