Motivational Quotes

Work

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

- Fleyer, Paul J.

Best Quotes about Work

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Riley, Pat

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

10.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

11.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Confucius

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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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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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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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

Herold, Don

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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

Maurois, Andre

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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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

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Huxley, Aldous

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry