Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

10.

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

13.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

14.

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

15.

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.

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

17.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

18.

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

19.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

20.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

21.

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

Berra, Yogi

22.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

23.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

24.

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

Rivers, Joan

25.

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

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

27.

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

28.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

29.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

30.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

31.

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

Keller, Helen

32.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

33.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

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

35.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

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

Austen, Jane

37.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

38.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

39.

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

Diller, Phyllis

40.

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

41.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

42.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

43.

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

44.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

45.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

46.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

47.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

49.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul