Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Wran, Neville Kenneth

Best Quotes about Work

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Maurois, Andre

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Ruskin, John

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

10.

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

11.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

12.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

13.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

14.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

Jones, Beverly

16.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

17.

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.

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

21.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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

23.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

24.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

25.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

26.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

27.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

28.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

29.

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

30.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

31.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

32.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

33.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

34.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

35.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

36.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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 --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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

41.

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

Proverb

42.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

43.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

44.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

47.

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

David McCullough

48.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.