Motivational Quotes

Work

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

- Fleyer, Paul J.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Confucius

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

Drucker, Peter F.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Herold, Don

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.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

10.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

11.

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

12.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Keller, Helen

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

Weil, Simone

16.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

18.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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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

21.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

25.

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

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

27.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

28.

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

Carty, Margaret

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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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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.

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

36.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

39.

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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

43.

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

Huxley, Aldous

45.

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

46.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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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

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb