Motivational Quotes

Work

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Work

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

12.

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

Ford, Henry

13.

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

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

18.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

19.

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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Blow, Susan

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

24.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

25.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

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

28.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

30.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

31.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

32.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

33.

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

David Shore

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

37.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

38.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

40.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

41.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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

43.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

47.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire