Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas Carlyle

Best Quotes about Work

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

Barzan, Gerald

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Ogden Nash

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

13.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Marquis, Don

16.

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

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Bob Ross

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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.

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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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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Peter Drucker

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

41.

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

Don Marquis

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

43.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Baldwin, James

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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

46.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.