Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Gillis, Dobie

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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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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.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Ruskin, John

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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.

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

20.

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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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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

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

Robert Benchley

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Keller, Helen

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Gorky, Maxim

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Maurois, Andre

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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

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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

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

Weil, Simone

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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