Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Work

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Thomas A. Edison

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Michelangelo

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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 secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Parkinson's Law

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Austen, Jane

33.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Rohn, Jim

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?