Motivational Quotes

Work

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Work

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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

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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

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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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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

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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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

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

Halas, George

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Marquis, Don

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ogden Nash