Motivational Quotes

Work

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Work

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

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Lowell, James Russell

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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.

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

Kemp, Jack

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Blow, Susan

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

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Howard Newton

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Bible

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Michelangelo

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.