Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Work

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Thomas Carlyle

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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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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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Howard Newton

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Voltaire

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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.

John Ruskin

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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

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Keller, Helen

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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.