Motivational Quotes

Work

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

- Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Best Quotes about Work

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

Weil, Simone

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Book, William Frederick

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

Work is a four letter word!

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

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Voltaire

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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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

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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

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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen 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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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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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 is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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.

John Ruskin

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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.

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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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 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