Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Hal Lancaster

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

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lennon, John

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

14.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

15.

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

Proverb

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

17.

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

Riley, Pat

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Sam Ewing

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Billings, Josh

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

Ogden Nash

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

37.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric