Motivational Quotes

Work

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Work

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Barack Obama

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

10.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

11.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

12.

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

13.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

15.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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

17.

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

Kemp, Jack

18.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

19.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

20.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

21.

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

22.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

23.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

24.

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

Ogden Nash

25.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

26.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

27.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

28.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

29.

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

30.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

31.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

32.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

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

34.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

35.

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

36.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

37.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

38.

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

Stengel, Casey

39.

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

Prince, Ray

40.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

41.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

42.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

43.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Austen, Jane

47.

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

48.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

49.

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

Oprah Winfrey

50.

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

Gorky, Maxim