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

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Shakarian, David

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

10.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

11.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

12.

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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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

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

15.

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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

18.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

19.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

20.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

21.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

22.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

23.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

24.

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

Prince, Ray

25.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

27.

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

Robert Morley

28.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

30.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

31.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

32.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

33.

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

Syrus, Publilius

34.

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

35.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

36.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

37.

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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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

39.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

40.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

41.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

42.

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

43.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

44.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

45.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

46.

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

Confucius

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert