Motivational Quotes

Work

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

- Miyazawa, Kiichi

Best Quotes about Work

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.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Blow, Susan

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Don Marquis

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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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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Sam Ewing

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

33.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Michelangelo

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Halas, George

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

40.

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.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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.