Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

11.

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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

14.

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

Michelangelo

15.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

16.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

17.

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

Don Marquis

18.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

19.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

20.

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.

21.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

23.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

24.

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

25.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

28.

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

29.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

30.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

32.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

33.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

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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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

38.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

40.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

41.

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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

43.

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

Halas, George

44.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

45.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

46.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

49.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

50.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew