Motivational Quotes

Work

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

- John Ruskin

Best Quotes about Work

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Frost, Robert

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Lennon, John

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Riley, Pat

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Oakley, Ann

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

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

34.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Thomas A. Edison

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Herbert, George

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