Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Work

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

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

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

10.

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

Robert Morley

11.

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

Parkinson's Law

12.

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

13.

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

Bhagavad Gita

14.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

15.

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

16.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

17.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

18.

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

19.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

21.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

22.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

23.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

24.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

25.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

26.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

27.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

28.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

29.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

30.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

31.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

32.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

33.

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

34.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

35.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

36.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

37.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

38.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

39.

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

40.

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

Oprah Winfrey

41.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

42.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

43.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

44.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

45.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

46.

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.

47.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

48.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

49.

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

50.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis