Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Blow, Susan

Best Quotes about Work

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

10.

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

11.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

12.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

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

Robert Benchley

14.

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

15.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

Huxley, Aldous

17.

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

Diller, Phyllis

18.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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

23.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

24.

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

Rohn, Jim

25.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

26.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

27.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

28.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

29.

Work is a four letter word!

30.

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

David McCullough

31.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

32.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

33.

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

Voltaire

34.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

35.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

38.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

42.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

43.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

LeMond, Greg

46.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

47.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

48.

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

49.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

50.

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

Blow, Susan