Motivational Quotes

Work

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

- Johnson, James Weldon

Best Quotes about Work

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

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Kemp, Jack

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

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

10.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

11.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

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

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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.

15.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

17.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

18.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

19.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

20.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

21.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

22.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

24.

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

Jong, Erica

25.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

30.

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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

33.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

34.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

35.

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

Wilde, Oscar

36.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

37.

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

38.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

39.

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

James M. Barrie

40.

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

Dodge, B.

41.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

43.

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

Baldwin, James

44.

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

Maurois, Andre

45.

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

Ruskin, John

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

48.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

50.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.