Motivational Quotes

Work

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Work

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Bible

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

11.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

12.

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

Ford, Henry

13.

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

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

15.

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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

17.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

18.

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

Michelangelo

19.

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

20.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

21.

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

22.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

23.

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

Baldwin, James

24.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

25.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

26.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

28.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

29.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

30.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

31.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

32.

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

Bhagavad Gita

33.

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

Jones, Beverly

34.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

35.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

36.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

38.

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

Proverb

39.

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

40.

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

Gorky, Maxim

41.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

42.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

43.

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

Halas, George