Motivational Quotes

Work

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Work

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Hepburn, Katharine

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Syrus, Publilius

10.

...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

11.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Sand, George

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

33.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rivers, Joan

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Allen, James

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Foster, Jodie

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

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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.