Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Book, William Frederick

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

10.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

12.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

13.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

14.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

15.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

16.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

17.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

18.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

19.

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

20.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

21.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

22.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Bhagavad Gita

28.

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

Oprah Winfrey

29.

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

30.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

31.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

32.

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

Dodge, B.

33.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

34.

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

35.

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

36.

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

37.

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

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

39.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

40.

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

41.

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.

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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

43.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

46.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

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

Jong, Erica

49.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

50.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James