Motivational Quotes

Work

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

- Morris, William

Best Quotes about Work

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Work is a four letter word!

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

Confucius

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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

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

David Shore

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

Michelangelo

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

Ogden Nash

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Morris, William

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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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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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Barack Obama

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

Voltaire

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

Dodge, B.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Escher, M. C.

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel