Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Work

Work is a four letter word!

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

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

David McCullough

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

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

10.

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

Kemp, Jack

11.

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

Ford, Henry

12.

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

Howard Newton

13.

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

Robert Morley

14.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

15.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

16.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

17.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

18.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

20.

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

21.

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Austen, Jane

23.

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

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

26.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

27.

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

Billings, Josh

28.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Rohn, Jim

34.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

36.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

37.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Elbert Hubbard

40.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

43.

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

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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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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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish