Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Pennebaker, Don Alan

Best Quotes about Work

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Milsap, Ronnie

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Maurois, Andre

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

10.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

11.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

12.

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

13.

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

Confucius

14.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

15.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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

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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

18.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

19.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

20.

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

Elbert Hubbard

21.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

22.

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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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

24.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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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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

28.

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

Ruskin, John

29.

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

Blow, Susan

30.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

31.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

32.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

33.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

34.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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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

37.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

38.

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

Marquis, Don

39.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

40.

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

Bible

41.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

42.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

43.

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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

45.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

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

Parkinson's Law

49.

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

Lennon, John

50.

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.