Motivational Quotes

Work

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

- Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Best Quotes about Work

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Riley, Pat

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

12.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

13.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

14.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

18.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

19.

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

20.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

21.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

22.

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.

23.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

24.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

25.

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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

27.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Robert Benchley

31.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

32.

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

Prince, Ray

33.

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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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

36.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

37.

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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

40.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

41.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

44.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

48.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

49.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia