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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Twain, Mark

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

LeMond, Greg

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Parkinson's Law

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Confucius

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Keller, Helen

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Oprah Winfrey

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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.

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ogden Nash

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

Weil, Simone

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

Howard Newton

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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.

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

Devine, Dan

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

David Shore

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank