Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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

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

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

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Marquis, Don

16.

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

Jones, Beverly

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

22.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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 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

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

27.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Voltaire

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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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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Barack Obama

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

39.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

45.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

46.

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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo