Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robert Benchley

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

David McCullough

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Weil, Simone

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

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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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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Confucius

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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

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

James M. Barrie

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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Jones, Beverly

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