Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Work

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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

Billings, Josh

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

...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

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

10.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

11.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

12.

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

13.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

14.

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

15.

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

Paterno, Joe

16.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

17.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

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

Voltaire

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

24.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

28.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

29.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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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.

32.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

33.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

34.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

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

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

38.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Picasso, Pablo

40.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

45.

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

Howard Newton

46.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

48.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen