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

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Voltaire

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Proverb, French

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Lennon, John

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bible

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