Motivational Quotes

Work

A man grows most tired while standing still.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Work

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

Dodge, B.

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

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

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

10.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

Carty, Margaret

13.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

14.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

15.

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

Barzan, Gerald

16.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

17.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

18.

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

Keller, Helen

19.

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

Allen, James

20.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

21.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

22.

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

Riley, Pat

23.

Work is a four letter word!

24.

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

Proverb, French

25.

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

26.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

27.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

28.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

29.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

30.

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

Rohn, Jim

31.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

32.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

33.

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

Bhagavad Gita

34.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

35.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

36.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

37.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

38.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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

40.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

41.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

42.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

43.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

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

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.