Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Pickens, T. Boone

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Howard Newton

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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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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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

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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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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

David McCullough

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Work is a four letter word!

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