Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas Carlyle

Best Quotes about 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

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

Fox, Jim

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

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

Herbert, George

10.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

11.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

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

Bible

17.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

18.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

19.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Peter Drucker

21.

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

22.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Barack Obama

25.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

26.

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

27.

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

David McCullough

28.

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

Richard Bach

29.

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

Baldwin, James

30.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

31.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

32.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

33.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

34.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

35.

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

Austen, Jane

36.

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

James M. Barrie

37.

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

Wilde, Oscar

38.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

39.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

41.

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

42.

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

Jones, Beverly

43.

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.

44.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

48.

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

Robert Morley

49.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat