Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Chrysosatom, St. John

Best Quotes about Work

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

10.

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

Syrus, Publilius

11.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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

18.

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

Baldwin, James

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

24.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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

26.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

27.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

28.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

29.

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

30.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

31.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

32.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

33.

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

34.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

35.

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

Halas, George

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

37.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

38.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

40.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

41.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

43.

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

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

45.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark