Motivational Quotes

Work

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

- Saintamo, Michael De

Best Quotes about Work

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

10.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

11.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

12.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Bible

15.

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

Barack Obama

16.

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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

22.

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

24.

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.

25.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

27.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

28.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

29.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

30.

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

Escher, M. C.

31.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

32.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

33.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

36.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

37.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

38.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

39.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

40.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

41.

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

Weil, Simone

43.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

44.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

45.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

46.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

47.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

48.

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

Book, William Frederick

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