Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

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Best Quotes about Work

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Marquis, Don

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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.

John Ruskin

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

Herold, Don

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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

11.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

12.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

13.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

14.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

15.

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

16.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

17.

...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

18.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

19.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

21.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

22.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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

24.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

25.

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

Lennon, John

26.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

27.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

28.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

29.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

30.

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

31.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

32.

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

33.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

34.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

35.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

36.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

37.

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

38.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

39.

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

40.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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

42.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

43.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

44.

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

45.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

46.

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

47.

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

Parkinson's Law

48.

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

Rutte, Martin

49.

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

Rohn, Jim

50.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.