Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Weil, Simone

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Austen, Jane

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Sand, George

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Confucius

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.

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

Halas, George

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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

David Shore

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Bob Ross

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

Keller, Helen

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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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 work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl