Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

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

Devine, Dan

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

10.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

11.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

12.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

13.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

14.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

15.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

18.

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

Escher, M. C.

19.

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

20.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

21.

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

25.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

26.

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

27.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

29.

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

30.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

31.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

32.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

33.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

35.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

Ruskin, John

37.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

38.

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.

39.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

40.

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

Confucius

41.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

42.

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

Rutte, Martin

43.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

44.

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

45.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

46.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

47.

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

48.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

49.

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

50.

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

Kipling, Rudyard