Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Chaucer, Geoffrey

Best Quotes about Work

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

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

David Shore

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Mansfield, Katherine

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Syrus, Publilius

10.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

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

Lennon, John

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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

15.

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Blow, Susan

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

18.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

19.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

20.

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

Barack Obama

21.

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

Weil, Simone

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

24.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

25.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

30.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

31.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

32.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

35.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

37.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Ashford, Evelyn

39.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

40.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

41.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.