Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Austen, Jane

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Herbert, George

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

David Shore

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

Anatole France

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gillis, Dobie

25.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Ford, Henry

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Blow, Susan

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

41.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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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

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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.