Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

10.

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

Thomas A. Edison

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

13.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

15.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

16.

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.

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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

19.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

20.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Voltaire

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Thomas Carlyle

26.

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

Frost, Robert

27.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

28.

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

Twain, Mark

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

32.

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.

33.

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

Don Marquis

34.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

35.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

36.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

44.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

45.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

46.

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

Carty, Margaret

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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

48.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

49.

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

50.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.