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

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Hill, Napoleon

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Ashford, Evelyn

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Huxley, Aldous

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

13.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

14.

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

15.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

16.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

18.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

19.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

20.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

21.

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

Benchley, Robert

22.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

23.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

24.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

25.

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

Thomas A. Edison

26.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

27.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

28.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

30.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

32.

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

Gillis, Dobie

33.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

34.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

35.

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

Diller, Phyllis

36.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

37.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

38.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

39.

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

40.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

41.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

42.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

43.

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

44.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

45.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

46.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

47.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

49.

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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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]

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