Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Romer, Frank

Best Quotes about Work

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.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Wilde, Oscar

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

10.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

11.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

12.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

13.

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

14.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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

Weil, Simone

16.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

17.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

18.

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.

19.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

20.

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

21.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

22.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

23.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

24.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

25.

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

Maurois, Andre

26.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

27.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

28.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

29.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

30.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

31.

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

32.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

33.

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

34.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

35.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

36.

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

Don Marquis

37.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

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

Parkinson's Law

39.

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

Keller, Helen

40.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

41.

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

Hal Lancaster

42.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

43.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

44.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

45.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

46.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

47.

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

48.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

49.

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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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