Motivational Quotes

Work

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Work

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Blow, Susan

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

11.

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

Diller, Phyllis

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

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

14.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

15.

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

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

Confucius

17.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

18.

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

19.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

20.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

21.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

22.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

24.

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

25.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

26.

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.

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

29.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

30.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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

David Shore

32.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

33.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

34.

...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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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

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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

37.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

38.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

39.

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

40.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

41.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.

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

Book, William Frederick

43.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Herold, Don

45.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

46.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

48.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

49.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Robert Benchley