Motivational Quotes

Work

How do I work? I grope.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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

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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

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

David Shore

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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