Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Slick, Grace

Best Quotes about Work

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

10.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

11.

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

12.

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

Kemp, Jack

13.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

14.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

15.

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

Oakley, Ann

17.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

18.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

19.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

20.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

21.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

22.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Work is a four letter word!

25.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

26.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

27.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

32.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

33.

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

Devine, Dan

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

37.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

38.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

40.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

41.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

42.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

44.

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

Angelou, Maya

45.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

46.

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

47.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

48.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

49.

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

50.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace