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

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Jong, Erica

10.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

11.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

12.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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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.

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

LeMond, Greg

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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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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

23.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

27.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

28.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

30.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

31.

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

32.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

41.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

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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

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

49.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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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