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

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

Rivers, Joan

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Weil, Simone

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Marquis, Don

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Henry J. Kaiser

12.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

14.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Proverb

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Jong, Erica