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

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

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

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Lowell, James Russell

10.

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

Butler, Samuel

11.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

12.

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

13.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

14.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

15.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

16.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

17.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

18.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

19.

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

20.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

22.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

23.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

24.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

25.

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

Escher, M. C.

26.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

27.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

28.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

29.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

30.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

31.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

32.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

34.

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

35.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

36.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

37.

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

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.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

40.

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

41.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

42.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

43.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

44.

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

45.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

46.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

47.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

48.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

49.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

50.

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

Herbert, George