Motivational Quotes

Work

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Hal Lancaster

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

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

Jong, Erica

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.

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

Proverb, American

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

11.

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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Mitchell, Warren

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Austen, Jane

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

31.

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

32.

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey