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

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Parkinson's Law

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

10.

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

11.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

12.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

13.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

14.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

15.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

16.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

17.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

21.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

22.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

23.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

24.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

25.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

29.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

30.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

31.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

32.

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

33.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

34.

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

Blow, Susan

35.

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

36.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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

39.

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

Stengel, Casey

40.

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

Devine, Dan

41.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

42.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

43.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

44.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

45.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

46.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

47.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

50.

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