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

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

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

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

10.

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

Gorky, Maxim

11.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

12.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

13.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

14.

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

15.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

16.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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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

19.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

20.

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.

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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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

25.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

26.

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

Austen, Jane

27.

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

Rutte, Martin

28.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

30.

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

Bob Ross

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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

33.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

34.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

35.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

37.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

42.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

43.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

44.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Keller, Helen

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert