Motivational Quotes

Work

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

- John Ruskin

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Barzan, Gerald

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

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

Austen, Jane

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

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

Voltaire

10.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

11.

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

12.

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

Rivers, Joan

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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

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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.

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Twain, Mark

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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

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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

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Allen, James

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Frost, Robert

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.