Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Oakley, Ann

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Thomas Carlyle

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

10.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb

13.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

14.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

15.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

16.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Butterworth, Eric

19.

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

Barack Obama

20.

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

Rutte, Martin

21.

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

Thomas A. Edison

22.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

23.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

24.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

25.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

26.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

27.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

30.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

31.

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

Proverb, French

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

34.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

35.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

36.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

37.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

40.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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

42.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

43.

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

David McCullough

44.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

45.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

46.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

49.

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.

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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