Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

10.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

13.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

14.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

15.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

16.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

18.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

19.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

20.

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

21.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

22.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Confucius

24.

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

Thomas Carlyle

25.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

26.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

27.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

28.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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

31.

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

Escher, M. C.

32.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

34.

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.

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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

36.

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Howard Newton

41.

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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

43.

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

Rutte, Martin

44.

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

45.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

46.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

47.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

48.

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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary