Motivational Quotes

Work

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Work

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Berra, Yogi

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

10.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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

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

Halas, George

16.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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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

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

34.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

40.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

41.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Howard Newton

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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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

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

Keller, Helen

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael