Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Kipling, Rudyard

Best Quotes about Work

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Edison, Thomas A.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

10.

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

11.

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

Benchley, Robert

12.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

13.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

14.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

26.

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

Anatole France

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

28.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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

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.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Diller, Phyllis

36.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

41.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

42.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Twain, Mark

45.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.