Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Chrysosatom, St. John

Best Quotes about Work

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Robert Morley

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

Austen, Jane

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

Bible

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

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Twain, Mark

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Keller, Helen

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Billings, Josh

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Proverb, French

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

Ruskin, John

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Jones, Beverly

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Michelangelo

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey