Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Jong, Erica

Best Quotes about Work

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

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Mansfield, Katherine

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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

Keller, Helen

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Parkinson's Law

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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

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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

12.

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

13.

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

Michelangelo

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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

15.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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

17.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

18.

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

Kemp, Jack

19.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

21.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

25.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

26.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

27.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

28.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

29.

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

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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

31.

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

32.

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

Reagan, Ronald

33.

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

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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

35.

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.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Allen, James

38.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

39.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

40.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

41.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

42.

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

Foster, Jodie

43.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

44.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

45.

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

Herold, Don

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

49.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray