Motivational Quotes

Work

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

- Bob Ross

Best Quotes about Work

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Drucker, Peter F.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Halas, George

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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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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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

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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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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

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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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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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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire