Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Work

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Barack Obama

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

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

14.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

17.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

18.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

19.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

20.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

21.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

22.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

24.

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

Weil, Simone

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

28.

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

Gorky, Maxim

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

30.

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

Rivers, Joan

31.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

32.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

33.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

39.

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

Don Marquis

40.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

41.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

44.

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

David Shore

45.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

46.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

47.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

48.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

49.

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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible