Motivational Quotes

Work

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

- Anatole France

Best Quotes about Work

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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.

Work is a four letter word!

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

Proverb, French

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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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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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Blow, Susan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Keller, Helen

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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

Ogden Nash

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese