Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- James M. Barrie

Best Quotes about Work

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Proverb, French

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

10.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

11.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

14.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

15.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

16.

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

Confucius

17.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

18.

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

Oprah Winfrey

19.

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.

20.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

21.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

22.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

23.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

24.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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

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

Gretzky, Wayne

27.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

28.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

29.

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

Gorky, Maxim

30.

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

Peter Drucker

31.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

34.

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

Anatole France

35.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

36.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

37.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

38.

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.

John Ruskin

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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

40.

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

Angelou, Maya

41.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

42.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

43.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

44.

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

45.

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

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

47.

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

Maurois, Andre

48.

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.

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

Diller, Phyllis

50.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.