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

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

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

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

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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

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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

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

19.

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

Riley, Pat

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Herbert, George

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Bible

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

Butterworth, Eric

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

David Shore

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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

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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

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

Barack Obama

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Baldwin, James

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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

46.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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]

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