Motivational Quotes

Work

A man grows most tired while standing still.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Coolidge, Calvin

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

10.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

11.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

16.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

19.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Lombardi, Vince

22.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Don Marquis

24.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Pickens, T. Boone

26.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

27.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

28.

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

Oakley, Ann

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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

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

36.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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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

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

44.

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.

45.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

48.

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

Michelangelo

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

Thomas Carlyle