Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Work

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

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

Richard Bach

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Lennon, John

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

Oprah Winfrey

10.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Michelangelo

14.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

15.

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

Lowell, James Russell

16.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

17.

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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

19.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

20.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

21.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

23.

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

24.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

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

26.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

27.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

28.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

31.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

32.

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

Lombardi, Vince

33.

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

Picasso, Pablo

34.

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

Ruskin, John

35.

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.

36.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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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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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

40.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Johnson, James Weldon

42.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

43.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

44.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

46.

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

47.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

48.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

49.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.