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

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

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

11.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

12.

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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

14.

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

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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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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

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Escher, M. C.

42.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul