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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Confucius

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

10.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

11.

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

12.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

15.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

16.

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

Oakley, Ann

17.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

18.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

22.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

23.

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

24.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

25.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

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

Anatole France

27.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

28.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

29.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

30.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

33.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

34.

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

35.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

38.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

39.

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

Maurois, Andre

40.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

42.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

43.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

44.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.