Motivational Quotes

Work

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Work

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Dodge, B.

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Twain, Mark

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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

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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

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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

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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

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Keller, Helen