Motivational Quotes

Work

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

- Valery, Paul

Best Quotes about Work

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

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Peter Drucker

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

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

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Austen, Jane

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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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

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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

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

Lombardi, Vince

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

James M. Barrie

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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