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

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

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

Jones, Beverly

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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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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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.