Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Wran, Neville Kenneth

Best Quotes about Work

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

Holtz, Lou

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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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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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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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Lennon, John

22.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

23.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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.

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

28.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

29.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

34.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

35.

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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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

Jones, Beverly

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

43.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.