Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Work

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Ruskin, John

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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

11.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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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

13.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

15.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

16.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

21.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

24.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

25.

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

26.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

27.

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

Ogden Nash

28.

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.

29.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

30.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

31.

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

32.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

33.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

34.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

36.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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

38.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

39.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

40.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

41.

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

42.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

43.

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

44.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

45.

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

46.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

47.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

48.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

49.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire