Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Work

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

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

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Marquis, Don

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.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Allen, James

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Bob Ross

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Halas, George

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

Pavlova, Anna

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Proverb, American

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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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 dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

Rohn, Jim