Motivational Quotes

Work

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

- Ray, John

Best Quotes about Work

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.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Rutte, Martin

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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 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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

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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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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 greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Halas, George

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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.

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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

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

Pickens, T. Boone