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

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

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

Ford, Henry

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

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

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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Oakley, Ann

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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

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Austen, Jane

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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

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

28.

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

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Frost, Robert

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Parkinson's Law

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion