Motivational Quotes

Work

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

- Blow, Susan

Best Quotes about Work

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Ruskin, John

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

Austen, Jane

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

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

11.

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

12.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

13.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Angelou, Maya

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

19.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Voltaire

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Carty, Margaret

29.

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

Herold, Don

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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

33.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

35.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

37.

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

Maurois, Andre

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

41.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

44.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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