Motivational Quotes

Work

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

- Howard Newton

Best Quotes about Work

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Michelangelo

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

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

Herbert, George

11.

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

Bible

12.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

13.

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

Kemp, Jack

14.

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

18.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

20.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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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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

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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

27.

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

28.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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

30.

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

Gorky, Maxim

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

32.

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

33.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

34.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

35.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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.

38.

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

39.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

40.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Wilde, Oscar

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

45.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

46.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

47.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

49.

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

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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