Motivational Quotes

Work

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Work

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

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

Proverb, American

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

11.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Book, William Frederick

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lennon, John

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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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