Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Hill, Napoleon

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

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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

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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Twain, Mark

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

Oakley, Ann

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Marquis, Don

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.