Motivational Quotes

Work

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

- Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Best Quotes about Work

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Voltaire

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

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

Ford, Henry

14.

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

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Don Marquis

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

Blow, Susan

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

36.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

43.

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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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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.