Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Work

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

Gillis, Dobie

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Gretzky, Wayne

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

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

Robert Benchley

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

Riley, Pat

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

10.

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

Ruskin, John

11.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Lowell, James Russell

15.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

16.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

17.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

20.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

21.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

22.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

23.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

24.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

25.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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.

27.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

28.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

29.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Sand, George

32.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

35.

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.

36.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

37.

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

38.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

39.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

40.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

41.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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

43.

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

44.

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

Twain, Mark

45.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

46.

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

Proverb, French

47.

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

48.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

49.

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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John