Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Holtz, Lou

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

13.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

14.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

15.

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

Keller, Helen

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Bible

18.

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

19.

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

Oakley, Ann

21.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Proverb, French

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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 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

25.

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

26.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

27.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

28.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

30.

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

Blow, Susan

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

33.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

35.

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

36.

Work is a four letter word!

37.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

38.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

43.

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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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

46.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

48.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

49.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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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