Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Wilfred A. Peterson

Best Quotes about Work

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

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

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Kemp, Jack

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

30.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

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

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

33.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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

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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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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Frost, Robert

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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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 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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

49.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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