Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Work

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Sand, George

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

32.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Michelangelo

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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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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

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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

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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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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

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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.