Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Work

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Barzan, Gerald

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

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

10.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

11.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

12.

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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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

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

15.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

18.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

19.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

20.

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

Proverb, French

21.

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

Baldwin, James

22.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

25.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

26.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

27.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

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

David McCullough

29.

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

Stengel, Casey

30.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

31.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

33.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

34.

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

Dodge, B.

35.

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

Ogden Nash

36.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Jong, Erica

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

43.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

44.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

45.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

46.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Book, William Frederick

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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

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John