Motivational Quotes

Work

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Work

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

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

10.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

11.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

12.

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

Keller, Helen

13.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

14.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

15.

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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

17.

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

18.

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

Halas, George

19.

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

20.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

21.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

25.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

27.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

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

29.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

30.

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

Baldwin, James

31.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Riley, Pat

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

Ford, Henry

36.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

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

40.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

41.

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

42.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

43.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

44.

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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

46.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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

49.

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.

50.

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