Motivational Quotes

Work

A man grows most tired while standing still.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Work

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Michelangelo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

James M. Barrie

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

11.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

12.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

19.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Book, William Frederick

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

34.

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

Baldwin, James

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

41.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Keller, Helen

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

Lombardi, Vince

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Thomas A. Edison

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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.

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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