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

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

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.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Proverb, American

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

10.

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

Anatole France

11.

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

12.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

13.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

14.

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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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

16.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

17.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

18.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

19.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

20.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

21.

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

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

23.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

24.

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.

25.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

27.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

28.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

29.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

30.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

31.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

33.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

34.

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

35.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

Rutte, Martin

37.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

38.

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

39.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

40.

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

David Shore

41.

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

Gillis, Dobie

42.

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

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

44.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

47.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

48.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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