Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Best Quotes about Work

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Sam Ewing

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Dodge, B.

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

Maurois, Andre

10.

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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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

12.

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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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

15.

Work is a four letter word!

16.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

17.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

18.

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

Thomas A. Edison

19.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

22.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

27.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

30.

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

Rohn, Jim

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

James M. Barrie

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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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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 is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

38.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

45.

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

46.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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.