Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Work

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

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Robert Benchley

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Gorky, Maxim

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Work is a four letter word!

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without 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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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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

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

David McCullough

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Twain, Mark

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Bible

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

Richard Bach

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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