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

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Edison, Thomas A.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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.

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Halas, George

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

Maurois, Andre

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Gorky, Maxim

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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 sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Keller, Helen

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Voltaire

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France