Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Robert Benchley

Best Quotes about Work

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

Dodge, B.

Work is a four letter word!

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

10.

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

11.

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

Shakarian, David

12.

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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Bob Ross

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

31.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

32.

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

Book, William Frederick

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

37.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

39.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard