Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Work

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

David McCullough

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 does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Atkinson, Brooks

10.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

11.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

12.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

13.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

14.

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

Wilde, Oscar

15.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

16.

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

Parkinson's Law

17.

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

18.

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

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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

21.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

22.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

23.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

24.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

25.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

27.

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.

28.

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

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

30.

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

Robert Morley

31.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

32.

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

33.

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

Shakarian, David

34.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

35.

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

36.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Prince, Ray

38.

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

Lombardi, Vince

39.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

40.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

41.

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

Angelou, Maya

42.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

43.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

44.

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

45.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

47.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

48.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

49.

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

Keller, Helen

50.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese