Motivational Quotes

Work

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Work

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Maurois, Andre

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

10.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

11.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

12.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

13.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

15.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

19.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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

Hal Lancaster

22.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

23.

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

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thomas Carlyle

28.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

29.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

30.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

31.

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

Fox, Jim

32.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

37.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

38.

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

Bible

39.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

40.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

41.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

42.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

43.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

44.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Pavlova, Anna

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

49.

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

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary