Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

13.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

16.

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

Rutte, Martin

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

18.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

19.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

20.

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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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

Oprah Winfrey

25.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

26.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

27.

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

28.

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

Keller, Helen

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, American

32.

Work is a four letter word!

33.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

34.

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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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

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

Anatole France

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Austen, Jane

43.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

44.

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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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

49.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Hepburn, Katharine