Motivational Quotes

Work

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Work

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Dodge, B.

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 is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Marquis, Don

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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 has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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 learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Foster, Jodie

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Work is a four letter word!

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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