Motivational Quotes

Work

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Work

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

18.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

27.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Sand, George

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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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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.

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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

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

35.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Jong, Erica

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

39.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Michelangelo

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

Picasso, Pablo