Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Elbert Hubbard

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

10.

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

Blow, Susan

11.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

12.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

13.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

15.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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

17.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

18.

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

19.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

20.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

21.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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

24.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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.

John Ruskin

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

29.

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

Riley, Pat

30.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

31.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

32.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

33.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

34.

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

Anatole France

35.

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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

38.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

39.

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

Frost, Robert

40.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

41.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

45.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

46.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.