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

Carty, Margaret

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

Richard Bach

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

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Austen, Jane

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Kemp, Jack

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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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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

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

Bob Ross

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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.