Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

10.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

11.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

12.

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

Pavlova, Anna

13.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

14.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

15.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

16.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

18.

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

Robert Benchley

19.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Allen, James

23.

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

24.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

25.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

26.

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

Butler, Samuel

27.

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

James M. Barrie

28.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

29.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

30.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

31.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

33.

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

34.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

35.

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

Elbert Hubbard

36.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

37.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

38.

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

39.

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

Don Marquis

40.

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

Sand, George

41.

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

Halas, George

42.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

43.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

44.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

45.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

46.

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

47.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

48.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

49.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

50.

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