Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas Carlyle

Best Quotes about Work

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Riley, Pat

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

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

Keller, Helen

11.

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

David McCullough

12.

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

Escher, M. C.

13.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Henry David Thoreau

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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

16.

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

17.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

18.

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

Michelangelo

19.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

20.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

21.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

22.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

24.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

25.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

26.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

27.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

28.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

29.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

30.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

31.

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

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

35.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

38.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

40.

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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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Book, William Frederick

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

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

LeMond, Greg

45.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

50.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.