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

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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.

10.

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

11.

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

Oakley, Ann

12.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

13.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

14.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

15.

...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

16.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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

18.

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

19.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

20.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

21.

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

Romer, Frank

22.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

24.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

25.

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

Weil, Simone

26.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

27.

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

28.

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

Bob Ross

29.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

30.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

31.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

33.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

34.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

36.

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

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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

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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

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

Ford, Henry

42.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

46.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

47.

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

Huxley, Aldous

48.

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

49.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham