Motivational Quotes

Work

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Work

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

10.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

11.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Elbert Hubbard

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Keller, Helen

17.

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

Michelangelo

18.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

19.

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

Keller, Helen

20.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Allen, James

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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

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fox, Jim

29.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

34.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Keller, Helen

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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.

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

43.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

44.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Sand, George

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

Ruskin, John

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.