Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Work

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Austen, Jane

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Bible

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Gorky, Maxim

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Syrus, Publilius

10.

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

Hal Lancaster

11.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

12.

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

David McCullough

13.

Work is a four letter word!

14.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

15.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Oakley, Ann

17.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

18.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

19.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

20.

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

Proverb, French

21.

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

22.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

23.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

24.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

25.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

26.

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

Herold, Don

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

28.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

29.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

30.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

31.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

32.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

33.

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

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

35.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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

37.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

38.

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

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

40.

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

Keller, Helen

41.

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

42.

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

Jones, Beverly

43.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

45.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

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

Sand, George

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.