Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Ruskin, John

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Billings, Josh

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Foster, Jodie

10.

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

11.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

13.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

15.

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

Hal Lancaster

16.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

19.

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

20.

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

Barzan, Gerald

22.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

24.

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

Anatole France

25.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

26.

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

Halas, George

27.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

28.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

29.

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

Rohn, Jim

30.

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

Parkinson's Law

31.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

33.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

34.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

35.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Oprah Winfrey

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

Austen, Jane

39.

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

Don Marquis

40.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

41.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

42.

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

Book, William Frederick

43.

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

Proverb

44.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

45.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

47.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

49.

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

Devine, Dan