Motivational Quotes

Work

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

- Ashford, Evelyn

Best Quotes about Work

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

Maurois, Andre

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Gorky, Maxim

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Shakarian, David

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

Robert Morley

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

Weil, Simone

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Voltaire

10.

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

11.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

12.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

15.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

17.

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

Proverb, French

18.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

19.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

20.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

21.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

22.

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

David McCullough

23.

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

Baldwin, James

24.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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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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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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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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

29.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

30.

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

31.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

32.

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

33.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

34.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

35.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

36.

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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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

38.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

39.

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

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

41.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

43.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

44.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

45.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

46.

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

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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

48.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

49.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas