Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Work

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

10.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

11.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

12.

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

Oprah Winfrey

13.

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

Proverb, French

15.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

18.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

19.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Thomas A. Edison

27.

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

Michelangelo

28.

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

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

30.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

32.

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

Butler, Samuel

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

42.

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Ruskin, John

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

48.

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

Bob Ross