Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Elbert Hubbard

Best Quotes about Work

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

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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

Voltaire

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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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

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...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

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

24.

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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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

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

David McCullough

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Foster, Jodie

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Elbert Hubbard

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Michelangelo

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann