Motivational Quotes

Work

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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Best Quotes about Work

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Oakley, Ann

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Bible

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

Ford, Henry

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

Lowell, James Russell

10.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

11.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

12.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

13.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Blow, Susan

18.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

19.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Lombardi, Vince

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

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

Proverb, French

23.

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

24.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

25.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

27.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

28.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Keller, Helen

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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

33.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

34.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

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

Barack Obama

37.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

38.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

39.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

40.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

41.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Hubbard, Elbert

48.

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

Baldwin, James

49.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

50.

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.