Motivational Quotes

Work

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

- Pennebaker, Don Alan

Best Quotes about Work

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

11.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

12.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

13.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

14.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

15.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

16.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

17.

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

Proverb

18.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

19.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

20.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

21.

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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

25.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

27.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

28.

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

29.

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

Marquis, Don

30.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

31.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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

33.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

34.

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

35.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

36.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

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

38.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

40.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

42.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

43.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

44.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

47.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

48.

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

Billings, Josh

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.