Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Steve Jobs

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

10.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

11.

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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Michelangelo

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

32.

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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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Bhagavad Gita

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Richard Bach

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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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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Parkinson's Law