Motivational Quotes

Work

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

- Daniel Akst

Best Quotes about Work

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

Weil, Simone

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

James M. Barrie

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

10.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

11.

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

Gorky, Maxim

12.

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

13.

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

Maurois, Andre

14.

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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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

28.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Richard Bach

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Barack Obama

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

37.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

38.

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

Voltaire

39.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Twain, Mark

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Bible

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

45.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Howard Newton

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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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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

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

50.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew