Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mcevoy, J. P.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

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

Austen, Jane

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

10.

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.

11.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

14.

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

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

18.

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

19.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

20.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

21.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Butterworth, Eric

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

24.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

26.

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

Voltaire

27.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

28.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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.

30.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

31.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

32.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

33.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

34.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

35.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

36.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

37.

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

Rohn, Jim

38.

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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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

40.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

41.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Twain, Mark

43.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

46.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

47.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

48.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

49.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey