Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Lowell, James Russell

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

12.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Riley, Pat

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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.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

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

Bob Ross

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

Syrus, Publilius

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

27.

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

Keller, Helen

28.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lombardi, Vince

32.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

33.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

34.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

44.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

46.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

48.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

49.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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