Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Newton, Sir Isaac

Best Quotes about Work

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Drucker, Peter F.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Voltaire

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

Thomas A. Edison

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Barack Obama

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Baldwin, James

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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

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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 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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Diller, Phyllis