Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

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Best Quotes about Work

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Bhagavad Gita

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 is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Proverb, French

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

10.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

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

Robert Morley

12.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

13.

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

Oakley, Ann

14.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

16.

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

Huxley, Aldous

17.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

20.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

21.

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

Peter Drucker

22.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

25.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

26.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

27.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Herbert, George

29.

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

30.

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

Riley, Pat

31.

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

Elbert Hubbard

32.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

33.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

34.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

35.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

36.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

37.

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

38.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

39.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

40.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

42.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

43.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

44.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

45.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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

48.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

49.

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

50.

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

James M. Barrie