Motivational Quotes

Work

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Work

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

Sand, George

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

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

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

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

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Voltaire

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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.

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

Ford, Henry

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Herbert, George

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Keller, Helen

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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