Motivational Quotes

Work

Work alone is noble.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Work

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Hal Lancaster

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

Butterworth, Eric

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

10.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

11.

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.

12.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Bob Ross

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

Voltaire

15.

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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

17.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

18.

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

Berra, Yogi

19.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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.

21.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

22.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

24.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

27.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

28.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

29.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

30.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

31.

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

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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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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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.

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, American

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

45.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

47.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb