Motivational Quotes

Work

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Rutte, Martin

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Proverb

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Foster, Jodie

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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

11.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

12.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

13.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

14.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

15.

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

Howard Newton

16.

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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

18.

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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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

20.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

21.

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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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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

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

Berra, Yogi

25.

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

26.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

27.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

28.

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

Pavlova, Anna

29.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

30.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

31.

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

32.

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

Shakarian, David

33.

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

34.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

35.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

36.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

37.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

38.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

39.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

40.

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

41.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

43.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

44.

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

Bob Ross

45.

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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.