Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Elbert Hubbard

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

10.

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

11.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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

Jones, Beverly

15.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

16.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

17.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

25.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

26.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

28.

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

29.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

30.

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

31.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

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

Proverb

33.

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.

34.

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

Parkinson's Law

35.

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

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

37.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

38.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

Fox, Jim

40.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Bible

42.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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

44.

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

Ogden Nash

45.

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

Billings, Josh

46.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

David McCullough

50.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe