Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

- Prince, Ray

Best Quotes about Work

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Robert Morley

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

Riley, Pat

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

Michelangelo

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Ogden Nash

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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

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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

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George