Motivational Quotes

Work

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

- Allen, James

Best Quotes about Work

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

10.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

11.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

12.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

16.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

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

Oprah Winfrey

21.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Frost, Robert

24.

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

25.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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.

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

28.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

29.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

31.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

32.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

33.

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

Blow, Susan

34.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

35.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

36.

Work is a four letter word!

37.

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

Robert Benchley

38.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

39.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

40.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

43.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

44.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

45.

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

Confucius

46.

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

47.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

48.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

49.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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