Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Robert Morley

Best Quotes about Work

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Prince, Ray

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

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

Kemp, Jack

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Book, William Frederick

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Thomas Carlyle

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

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

Hubbard, L. Ron