Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Work

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wilde, Oscar

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Ruskin, John

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Voltaire

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

Bible

10.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

11.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

12.

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

13.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

Gorky, Maxim

19.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

20.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

22.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

25.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

26.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

27.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

28.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

29.

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

30.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

31.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

32.

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

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Proverb, French

40.

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

Parkinson's Law

41.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

42.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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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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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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

46.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Mitchell, Warren

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.