Motivational Quotes

Work

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

- Mccarthy, Mary

Best Quotes about Work

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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.

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

Stengel, Casey

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

10.

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

Oprah Winfrey

11.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

12.

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

Lowell, James Russell

13.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

18.

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

Marquis, Don

19.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

20.

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

Weil, Simone

21.

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.

22.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

23.

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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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

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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

26.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

27.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

28.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

29.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

30.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

31.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

32.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

33.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

35.

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

Barzan, Gerald

36.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

37.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

41.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

42.

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

Lombardi, Vince

43.

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

44.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

45.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

48.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

49.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page