Motivational Quotes

Work

While a person gets they can never lose.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Work

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

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

Keller, Helen

11.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

12.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

15.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

16.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

17.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

18.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

19.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

20.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

21.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

23.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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.

25.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

27.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

28.

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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

33.

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

Reagan, Ronald

34.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

35.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

37.

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

Halas, George

39.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

40.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

41.

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

42.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

43.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

45.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

46.

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

47.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

48.

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.

49.

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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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank