Motivational Quotes

Work

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

- Vaneigem, Raoul

Best Quotes about Work

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

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

Pavlova, Anna

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

10.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

12.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

15.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

22.

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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

24.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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

26.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Ruskin, John

30.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

31.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

32.

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

Bhagavad Gita

33.

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

34.

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

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

40.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

41.

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

Herbert, George

42.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

43.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

44.

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

Sand, George

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

48.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

49.

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

Fox, Jim

50.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.