Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

Picasso, Pablo

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

12.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

15.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

16.

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

Lennon, John

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

19.

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.

20.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

21.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Voltaire

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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 honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

34.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

35.

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

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

LeMond, Greg

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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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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

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

40.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

41.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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

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