Motivational Quotes

Work

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Work

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Benchley, Robert

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

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

10.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

11.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

12.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Twain, Mark

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

Marquis, Don

22.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Parkinson's Law

27.

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

Holtz, Lou

28.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Bhagavad Gita

34.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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.

Marquis, Don

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

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

Elbert Hubbard

43.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

44.

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

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

47.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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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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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray