Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Work

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

Hubbard, Elbert

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Twain, Mark

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

10.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

11.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

12.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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

17.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

18.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

19.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

20.

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

21.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

22.

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

Book, William Frederick

23.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

24.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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

26.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

27.

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

Halas, George

28.

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

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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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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

31.

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

Weil, Simone

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

33.

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

Slick, Grace

34.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

35.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

40.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

41.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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.

43.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

44.

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

Michelangelo

45.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

46.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson