Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Escher, M. C.

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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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

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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

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

Ogden Nash

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Allen, James

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Stengel, Casey

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan