Motivational Quotes

Work

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Work

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Henry J. Kaiser

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Rivers, Joan

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

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Shakarian, David

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Keller, Helen

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Peter Drucker

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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.

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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.

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

James M. Barrie

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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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