Motivational Quotes

Work

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

- Jerome, Jerome K.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Garfield, James A.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

David McCullough

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

12.

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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Prince, Ray

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Work is a four letter word!

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Michelangelo

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John