Motivational Quotes

Work

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

- Morrow, Lance

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

Fox, Jim

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

Prince, Ray

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

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

10.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

11.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

12.

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

13.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

14.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

15.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

16.

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

17.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

18.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

19.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

20.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

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

22.

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

Elbert Hubbard

23.

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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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

25.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

26.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

27.

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

28.

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

Baldwin, James

29.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

30.

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

31.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

32.

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

Keller, Helen

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

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

Bible

35.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

36.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

37.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

38.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

40.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

41.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

42.

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

Proverb

43.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

44.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

45.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Thomas Carlyle

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

48.

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

49.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

50.

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

Halas, George