Motivational Quotes

Work

The work will stand, no matter what.

- Streep, Meryl

Best Quotes about Work

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Voltaire

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

10.

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

Richard Bach

11.

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

12.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

David McCullough

14.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

15.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

16.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

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

Halas, George

18.

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

19.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

20.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

23.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

24.

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

27.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

28.

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

Devine, Dan

29.

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

30.

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

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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

32.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

33.

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

Proverb, French

34.

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

Riley, Pat

35.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

Fox, Jim

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

39.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

43.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

44.

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

Twain, Mark

45.

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

Oakley, Ann

47.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Robert Morley