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

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

Ogden Nash

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Bhagavad Gita

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Bible

21.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

27.

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

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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

29.

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

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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

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

Don Marquis

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

41.

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

Twain, Mark

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Oprah Winfrey

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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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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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.