Motivational Quotes

Work

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

- Saintamo, Michael De

Best Quotes about Work

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Don Marquis

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

18.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Thomas A. Edison

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Marquis, Don

28.

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

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

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

Devine, Dan

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Allen, James

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...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

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

Keller, Helen

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

50.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese