Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Allen, James

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Richard Bach

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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

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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

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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

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Work is a four letter word!

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Kemp, Jack

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

25.

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

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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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.

John Ruskin

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Barack Obama

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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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles