Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Work

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Billings, Josh

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

10.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

11.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

12.

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

13.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

14.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

15.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

16.

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

Prince, Ray

17.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

18.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

19.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

20.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

21.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

22.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

23.

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

24.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

25.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

26.

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.

27.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

28.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

29.

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

30.

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

Keller, Helen

31.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

32.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

33.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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.

35.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

36.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

37.

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

38.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

39.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

40.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

41.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

42.

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

43.

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

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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

45.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

46.

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

47.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.