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

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Foster, Jodie

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.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

10.

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

11.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

12.

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

13.

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

Berra, Yogi

14.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

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.

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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.

17.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

18.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

19.

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

Wilde, Oscar

20.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

21.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

Proverb, French

24.

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

25.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

26.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

27.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

28.

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

Dodge, B.

29.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

30.

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

Stengel, Casey

31.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

32.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

33.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

34.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

35.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

36.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

37.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

39.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

40.

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

Proverb, American

41.

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

Shakarian, David

42.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

43.

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

Confucius

44.

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

Hal Lancaster

45.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

46.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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

49.

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

50.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.