Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Austen, Jane

Best Quotes about Work

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

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, American

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

13.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Angelou, Maya

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine