Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Rivers, Joan

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

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

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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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

27.

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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Book, William Frederick

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.