Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Work

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Ogden Nash

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

Keller, Helen

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

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

10.

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

Howard Newton

11.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

12.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

13.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

14.

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

Stengel, Casey

15.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

16.

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

17.

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

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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

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

David Shore

21.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

22.

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Blow, Susan

24.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

25.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

29.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

30.

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

Anatole France

31.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

32.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

33.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

35.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

36.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

37.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

38.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

41.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

42.

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

43.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

44.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

45.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

49.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

50.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret