Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about 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.

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

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Work is a four letter word!

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Allen, James

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

Voltaire

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Proverb, American

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Carty, Margaret

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Devine, Dan

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

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

Austen, Jane

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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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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert