Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Book, William Frederick

Best Quotes about Work

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

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Butler, Samuel

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Voltaire

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Angelou, Maya

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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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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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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough