Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

David McCullough

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Hill, Napoleon

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Bob Ross

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

10.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

12.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

14.

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

Foster, Jodie

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

16.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

19.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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

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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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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

24.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

25.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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

28.

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

Twain, Mark

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

30.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

32.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

36.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

39.

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

Oprah Winfrey

40.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret