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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Proverb, American

15.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

19.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

20.

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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

24.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

25.

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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

28.

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

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

30.

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

Escher, M. C.

31.

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

Allen, James

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

34.

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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Proverb, French

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

38.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

43.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

45.

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

Diller, Phyllis

46.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

47.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.