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

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

Kemp, Jack

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Oprah Winfrey

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Michelangelo

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

David McCullough

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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

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

James M. Barrie

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Bob Ross

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

Atkinson, Brooks

26.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

28.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

30.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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 will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

35.

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

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.