Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

10.

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

11.

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

Frost, Robert

12.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

13.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

15.

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

Robert Benchley

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

18.

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

Blow, Susan

19.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

21.

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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

24.

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

Huxley, Aldous

25.

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

Marquis, Don

26.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

28.

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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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

30.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

31.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

32.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

33.

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

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

41.

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

Baldwin, James

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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

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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

46.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

47.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

48.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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]

Bible

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace