Motivational Quotes

Work

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

- Sam Ewing

Best Quotes about Work

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

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

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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

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

Foster, Jodie

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Butler, Samuel

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Ruskin, John

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Parkinson's Law

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Work is a four letter word!

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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