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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

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.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

David McCullough

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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.

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Keller, Helen

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Twain, Mark

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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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

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

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire