Motivational Quotes

Work

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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.

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

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Atkinson, Brooks

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

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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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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bible

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Gorky, Maxim

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Oakley, Ann

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Anatole France

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

James M. Barrie

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Work is a four letter word!

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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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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

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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