Motivational Quotes

Work

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

- Robert Morley

Best Quotes about Work

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Herbert, George

10.

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

Michelangelo

11.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

12.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

13.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

14.

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

15.

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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

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

Jong, Erica

22.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

23.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

25.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

26.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

27.

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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

29.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

30.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

31.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

...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

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

35.

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

36.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

37.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

38.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

39.

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

Rivers, Joan

40.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

41.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

42.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

44.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

45.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

46.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

47.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

48.

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

Sand, George

49.

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.