Motivational Quotes

Work

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Work

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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.

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

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

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thomas A. Edison

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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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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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Halas, George

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Allen, James

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

Butler, Samuel

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Keller, Helen

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

Book, William Frederick

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Prince, Ray

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne