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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

Oprah Winfrey

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

10.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

12.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

13.

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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

15.

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

16.

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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

18.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

19.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

20.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

21.

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

22.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

24.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

25.

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

26.

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

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

28.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

29.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

33.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

34.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

35.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

37.

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

38.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

39.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

40.

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