Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Work

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gillis, Dobie

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

11.

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

12.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

13.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

17.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

18.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

19.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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

21.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Bob Ross

23.

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

25.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

26.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

27.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

30.

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

Foster, Jodie

31.

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

32.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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.

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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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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

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

David McCullough

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

Bible

40.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

41.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Hal Lancaster

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

47.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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