Motivational Quotes

Work

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Work

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

11.

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

Weil, Simone

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Henry David Thoreau

19.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Keller, Helen

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

Paterno, Joe

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

30.

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

Lennon, John

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

33.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bible

35.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

44.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Dodge, B.

50.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.