Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas Carlyle

Best Quotes about Work

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Henry David Thoreau

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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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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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

Keller, Helen

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Ruskin, John

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Billings, Josh

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.