Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Keller, Helen

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

Romer, Frank

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

12.

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

Lombardi, Vince

13.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

14.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

17.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

18.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

19.

Work is a four letter word!

20.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

21.

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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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

25.

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.

26.

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

Allen, James

27.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

28.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

29.

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

30.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

31.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

32.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

33.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

34.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

35.

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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bible

40.

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

Holtz, Lou

41.

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

Voltaire

42.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

43.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.

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

Fox, Jim

45.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

46.

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

47.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

48.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

49.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

50.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.