Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Work

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Gorky, Maxim

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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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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! 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

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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

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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

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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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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.

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Baldwin, James

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Herold, Don

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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

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

Austen, Jane

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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

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.