Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

11.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

13.

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.

14.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

15.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

16.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

17.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

18.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

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

Huxley, Aldous

21.

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

Berra, Yogi

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

23.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

24.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

25.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

26.

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

Herold, Don

27.

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

28.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

30.

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

Benchley, Robert

31.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

32.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Gorky, Maxim

34.

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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

36.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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

38.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

39.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

40.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

41.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

43.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

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

45.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

47.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

48.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

49.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

50.

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