Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

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

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

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

Proverb

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

Jong, Erica

10.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

11.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

15.

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

Syrus, Publilius

16.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

17.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

18.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

19.

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

20.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

22.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

23.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

24.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

25.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

26.

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

27.

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

Maurois, Andre

28.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

29.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

30.

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

31.

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

Thomas A. Edison

32.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

33.

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

Robert Morley

34.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

35.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

38.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

40.

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

Romer, Frank

41.

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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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.

43.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

44.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

45.

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

46.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.