Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Book, William Frederick

Best Quotes about Work

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Huxley, Aldous

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Ruskin, John

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

10.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

11.

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

12.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

13.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

14.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

15.

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

Benchley, Robert

16.

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

Romer, Frank

17.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

18.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

19.

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

20.

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

Holtz, Lou

21.

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

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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

23.

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

24.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

26.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

27.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

28.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

29.

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

30.

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

Devine, Dan

31.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

33.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

38.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

42.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

43.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

44.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French