Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Chrysosatom, St. John

Best Quotes about Work

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

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

10.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

11.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

12.

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

13.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

14.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

17.

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

Stengel, Casey

18.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

19.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

20.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

21.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

22.

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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

24.

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

Butler, Samuel

25.

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

26.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

27.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

28.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

31.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

32.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

33.

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

34.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

35.

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.

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Gorky, Maxim

43.

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

Maurois, Andre

44.

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

Proverb, American

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi