Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

10.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

13.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

14.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

15.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

16.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

17.

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

Blow, Susan

18.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

20.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

21.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

22.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

23.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

27.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

28.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

29.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

30.

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

31.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

32.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

34.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

35.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

36.

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

Don Marquis

37.

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

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

39.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

40.

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

Maurois, Andre

41.

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

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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.

43.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

44.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

45.

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

Sam Ewing

46.

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

Herold, Don

47.

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

James M. Barrie

48.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

49.

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

50.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert