Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Work

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

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

David McCullough

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.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

10.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

11.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

12.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

13.

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.

14.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

15.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

16.

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

17.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

18.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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

20.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

21.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

22.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

23.

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

Rivers, Joan

24.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

25.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

26.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

27.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

28.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

30.

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

Richard Bach

31.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

32.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

33.

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

34.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

35.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

36.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

37.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Kipling, Rudyard

40.

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

Hal Lancaster

41.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

42.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

43.

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

44.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

45.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

46.

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

Shakarian, David

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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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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.