Motivational Quotes

Work

If food were free, why work?

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Work

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

Ogden Nash

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Bible

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

Jong, Erica

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

14.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

18.

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

Ford, Henry

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

21.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

22.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

25.

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

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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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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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

33.

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

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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

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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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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Proverb

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

46.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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