Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Escher, M. C.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

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

Don Marquis

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Hepburn, Katharine

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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

11.

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

Parkinson's Law

12.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Confucius

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Benchley, Robert

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Ogden Nash

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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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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

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hal Lancaster

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Lennon, John

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Twain, Mark

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

David Shore

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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

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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

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Gorky, Maxim

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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