Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Shakarian, David

Best Quotes about Work

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

Huxley, Aldous

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

11.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Ford, Henry

15.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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

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

18.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Marquis, Don

20.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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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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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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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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Howard Newton

30.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

31.

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

32.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

35.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

43.

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

Butler, Samuel

44.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

45.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.