Motivational Quotes

Work

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

- Chaucer, Geoffrey

Best Quotes about Work

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Ford, Henry

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

Allen, James

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

10.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

11.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

12.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

13.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

14.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

15.

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

Ogden Nash

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

19.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

20.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

21.

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

Ruskin, John

22.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

23.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

24.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

25.

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

26.

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

Jones, Beverly

27.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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

Keller, Helen

29.

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

Michelangelo

30.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

31.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

33.

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

Riley, Pat

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

35.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

36.

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

Twain, Mark

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

39.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

Fox, Jim