Motivational Quotes

Work

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

- W. Somerset Maugham

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

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.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

Michelangelo

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

11.

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

Billings, Josh

12.

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

Barzan, Gerald

13.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

14.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

15.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

16.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

17.

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

18.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

19.

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]

Bible

20.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

21.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

22.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

23.

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

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

25.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

28.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

29.

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

30.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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

Baldwin, James

32.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

33.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

34.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

35.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

36.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

37.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

38.

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

Thomas A. Edison

39.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

40.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

41.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

42.

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

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

44.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

45.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

46.

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

Twain, Mark

47.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

48.

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

Proverb

49.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert