Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Ruskin, John

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

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Lennon, John

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

10.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

13.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

14.

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

Gorky, Maxim

15.

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

16.

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

Escher, M. C.

17.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

18.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

19.

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.

20.

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

Ford, Henry

21.

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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

24.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

26.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

30.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

34.

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

Confucius

35.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

36.

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

Garfield, James A.

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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 is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

40.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

41.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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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

43.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

44.

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

Book, William Frederick

45.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

49.

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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric