Motivational Quotes

Work

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

- Frank, Anne

Best Quotes about Work

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Twain, Mark

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

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

Voltaire

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

Syrus, Publilius

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Dodge, B.

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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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

36.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Allen, James

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

49.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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