Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ogden Nash

Best Quotes about Work

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Book, William Frederick

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.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

James M. Barrie

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

Weil, Simone

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

27.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

28.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

29.

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

Hal Lancaster

30.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

31.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Sand, George

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

39.

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

David McCullough

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

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

Michelangelo

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.