Motivational Quotes

Work

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

- Larkin, Philip

Best Quotes about Work

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

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Bob Ross

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

10.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

11.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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

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

Peter Drucker

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

19.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

21.

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

Marquis, Don

22.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

25.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

26.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

27.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

28.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Allen, James

30.

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

31.

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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

33.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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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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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

41.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Rohn, Jim

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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 person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?