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

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Sand, George

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Baldwin, James

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Thomas Carlyle

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Allen, James

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

28.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

29.

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

30.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

31.

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

Holtz, Lou

32.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

James M. Barrie

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Devine, Dan

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

Jong, Erica

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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