Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Oakley, Ann

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

10.

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

11.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

12.

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

Jong, Erica

13.

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

14.

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

Rivers, Joan

15.

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

Bhagavad Gita

17.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

18.

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

19.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

20.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

21.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

22.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

23.

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

Oprah Winfrey

24.

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

25.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

26.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

27.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

28.

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.

29.

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

Keller, Helen

30.

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

Garfield, James A.

31.

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

32.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

33.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

34.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

35.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

37.

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

Bob Ross

38.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

39.

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

Picasso, Pablo

40.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

41.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

42.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

43.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

44.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

45.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

46.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

47.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

48.

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

49.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey