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

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Confucius

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Riley, Pat

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

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Twain, Mark

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

18.

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

Herold, Don

19.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

20.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Voltaire

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

23.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

24.

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

25.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

27.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

29.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

30.

Work is a four letter word!

31.

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

32.

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

Gorky, Maxim

33.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

34.

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

Baldwin, James

35.

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

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

37.

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

Dodge, B.

38.

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

Book, William Frederick

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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.

41.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

43.

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

Berra, Yogi

44.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

45.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

46.

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

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

49.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

50.

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