Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Work

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Proverb, American

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Oakley, Ann

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

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

Jones, Beverly

10.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

11.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

12.

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

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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

14.

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

Baldwin, James

15.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

16.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

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

18.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

19.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

20.

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

Jong, Erica

21.

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

Shakarian, David

22.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

23.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

25.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

26.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

27.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

28.

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

29.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

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

Angelou, Maya

31.

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

Diller, Phyllis

32.

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

Dodge, B.

33.

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

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

Gorky, Maxim

35.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

37.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

38.

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

Peter Drucker

39.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

40.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

41.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

42.

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.

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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.

44.

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

45.

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.

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

48.

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.

49.

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.

50.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.