Motivational Quotes

Work

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

- Book, William Frederick

Best Quotes about Work

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

Weil, Simone

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

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

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

James M. Barrie

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.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Kemp, Jack

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Herbert, George

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Parkinson's Law

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

26.

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

Confucius

27.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Bob Ross

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

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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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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

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Sand, George

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

42.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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