Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Gorky, Maxim

Best Quotes about Work

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Ford, Henry

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

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

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

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

11.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

12.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

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

Huxley, Aldous

14.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

15.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

16.

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

Jones, Beverly

17.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Fox, Jim

21.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

22.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

23.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

24.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

25.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

26.

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

Hal Lancaster

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

30.

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.

31.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

32.

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.

33.

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

Parkinson's Law

34.

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

35.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

36.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

40.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

41.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

42.

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

43.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

44.

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

45.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

46.

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

Jong, Erica

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rohn, Jim

49.

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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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