Motivational Quotes

Work

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

- Javits, Marion

Best Quotes about Work

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

Rivers, Joan

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Rohn, Jim

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

10.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

11.

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

12.

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

13.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

14.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

15.

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.

16.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

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.

18.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

19.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

20.

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

22.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

23.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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

25.

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

Holtz, Lou

26.

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.

27.

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

Frost, Robert

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

29.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

30.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

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

Jong, Erica

32.

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

33.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

34.

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.

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

38.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

42.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

43.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

44.

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

45.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

46.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

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

48.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

49.

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

50.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham