Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

James M. Barrie

...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

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

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

Parkinson, Joseph

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Parkinson's Law

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Work is a four letter word!

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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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.

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

Jones, Beverly

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Baldwin, James

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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

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

Lennon, John

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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.

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Jong, Erica

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

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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

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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

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

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat