Motivational Quotes

Work

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

- Ecker, Frederick Hudson

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

Huxley, Aldous

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

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.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Sand, George

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

10.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

12.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

13.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

14.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

15.

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

Dodge, B.

16.

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 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

18.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

19.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

20.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

21.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

22.

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

Escher, M. C.

23.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

24.

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

Diller, Phyllis

25.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

27.

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

Proverb

28.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

29.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

35.

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

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

Voltaire

37.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

38.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

39.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

40.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

41.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

42.

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

Maurois, Andre

43.

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

44.

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

45.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

46.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

47.

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

Jones, Beverly

48.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

49.

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

Henry J. Kaiser