Motivational Quotes

Work

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

- Saintamo, Michael De

Best Quotes about Work

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Bob Ross

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

11.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

12.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

13.

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

14.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

15.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

16.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

17.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

18.

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

19.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

20.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

21.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

22.

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

Devine, Dan

23.

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.

24.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

25.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

26.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

27.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

28.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

29.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

30.

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

31.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

32.

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

Butler, Samuel

33.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

34.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

35.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

36.

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

Prince, Ray

37.

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

38.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

40.

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

Rohn, Jim

41.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

42.

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

43.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

44.

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.

45.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

46.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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

48.

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

Maurois, Andre

49.

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

Keller, Helen

50.

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