Motivational Quotes

Work

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Work

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

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

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

10.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

11.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

12.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

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.

14.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

15.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

16.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Bible

19.

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

Dodge, B.

20.

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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

22.

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

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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

24.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

26.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

29.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

30.

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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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

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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

35.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

36.

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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

38.

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

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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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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

41.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

42.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

43.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

44.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

47.

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

Kemp, Jack

48.

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

Peter Drucker

49.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem