Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Devine, Dan

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

11.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

16.

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

Howard Newton

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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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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.

19.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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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

24.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

25.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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

27.

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

28.

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

Book, William Frederick

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

32.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

33.

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

34.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

35.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Robert Benchley

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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

43.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

44.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

49.

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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul