Motivational Quotes

Work

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Work

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Theodore Roosevelt

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

10.

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

Bob Ross

11.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

12.

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

Shakarian, David

13.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

14.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

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

David McCullough

16.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

17.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

19.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

20.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

21.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

22.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

23.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thomas Carlyle

28.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

29.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

30.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

31.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

32.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

33.

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

34.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

36.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

37.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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

39.

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

Hal Lancaster

40.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

41.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

43.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

Keller, Helen

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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

48.

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.

49.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

50.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert