Motivational Quotes

Work

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Work

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Herold, Don

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Ogden Nash

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Ford, Henry

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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

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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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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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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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers