Motivational Quotes

Work

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

- Chrysosatom, St. John

Best Quotes about Work

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

Bhagavad Gita

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

David Shore

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

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

10.

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

11.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

12.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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

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

17.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

19.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

21.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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

23.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

26.

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

27.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

30.

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

Oakley, Ann

31.

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

Allen, James

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Angelou, Maya

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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

Book, William Frederick

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

49.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De