Motivational Quotes

Work

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Work

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

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

10.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

11.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

12.

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

Weil, Simone

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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

18.

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

Bible

19.

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.

20.

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

James M. Barrie

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Austen, Jane

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

Fox, Jim

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Riley, Pat

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Halas, George

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

40.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

43.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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 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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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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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret