Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Work

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

Thomas A. Edison

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Carty, Margaret

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

12.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

18.

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

Twain, Mark

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

30.

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

31.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Twain, Mark

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Bob Ross

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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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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.

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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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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Barzan, Gerald

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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