Motivational Quotes

Work

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Work

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

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Thomas A. Edison

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Gorky, Maxim

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

12.

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

Proverb

13.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

14.

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

15.

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

Reagan, Ronald

16.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

17.

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

Robert Morley

18.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

19.

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

20.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

21.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

23.

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

Oakley, Ann

24.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

25.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

26.

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

27.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

28.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

29.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

31.

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

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

35.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

36.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

37.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

38.

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

39.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

40.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

42.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

43.

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

44.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

45.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

46.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

48.

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.

49.

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

David McCullough

50.

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