Motivational Quotes

Work

Work alone is noble.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Work

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Pavlova, Anna

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Robert Morley

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

David Shore

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Carty, Margaret

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Bob Ross

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

30.

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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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Proverb, French

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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.