Motivational Quotes

Work

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

- Charette, Fred

Best Quotes about Work

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

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Foster, Jodie

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

Anatole France

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

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Parkinson's Law

10.

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

11.

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

12.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

13.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

14.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

18.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

19.

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

Diller, Phyllis

20.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

21.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

23.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

24.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

25.

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

Stengel, Casey

26.

Work is a four letter word!

27.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

28.

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

29.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

31.

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

Weil, Simone

32.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

33.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

34.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

35.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

36.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

37.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

40.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

42.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

44.

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

45.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Oakley, Ann

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