Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Ford, Henry

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

10.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

12.

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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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 cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

16.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

17.

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

Lombardi, Vince

19.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

20.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

23.

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

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

25.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

Keller, Helen

28.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

29.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

30.

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

31.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

32.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

36.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

37.

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

38.

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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

42.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

43.

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

44.

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

Rutte, Martin

45.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

46.

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.

47.

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

Twain, Mark

48.

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

Howard Newton

50.

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