Motivational Quotes

Work

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

- Jones, Beverly

Best Quotes about Work

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

Butterworth, Eric

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Anatole France

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

27.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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

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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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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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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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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

44.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Riley, Pat

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