Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas Carlyle

Best Quotes about Work

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Jong, Erica

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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 --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.

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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 consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Kemp, Jack

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.