Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Rivers, Joan

Best Quotes about Work

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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.

John Ruskin

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

10.

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

Weil, Simone

11.

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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Don Marquis

14.

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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Proverb, American

19.

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

20.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

21.

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

Gillis, Dobie

22.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

23.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

24.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

25.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

33.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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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

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

45.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

46.

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

Frost, Robert

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Syrus, Publilius