Motivational Quotes

Work

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

- Larkin, Philip

Best Quotes about Work

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

Work is a four letter word!

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

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

Howard Newton

10.

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

Butler, Samuel

11.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Ford, Henry

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

John Ruskin

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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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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

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Michelangelo

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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

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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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

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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Kemp, Jack

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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 perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Bible

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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

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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James