Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ogden Nash

Best Quotes about Work

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Devine, Dan

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

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Michelangelo

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

Robert Morley

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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.

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

David Shore

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Benchley, Robert

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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 life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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

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

Confucius

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

Oakley, Ann

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Weil, Simone

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.