Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Work

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Wilde, Oscar

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Sand, George

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

10.

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

Picasso, Pablo

11.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

12.

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

Keller, Helen

13.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

14.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

15.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

16.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

18.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

19.

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

Herold, Don

20.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

21.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

22.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Voltaire

24.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

25.

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

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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

27.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

28.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

31.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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.

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

34.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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

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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.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

39.

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

Oprah Winfrey

40.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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

Twain, Mark

43.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

44.

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

45.

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

Garfield, James A.

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

48.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

Jones, Beverly