Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Dorothy L. Sayers

Best Quotes about Work

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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.

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

Benchley, Robert

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Diller, Phyllis

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

10.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

11.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

12.

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

Robert Morley

13.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

14.

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

Oakley, Ann

15.

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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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

17.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

18.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

19.

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

Prince, Ray

20.

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

21.

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

Jones, Beverly

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

25.

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

26.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

27.

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

David McCullough

28.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

29.

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

30.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

31.

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

Riley, Pat

32.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

35.

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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

37.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

38.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

39.

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

Huxley, Aldous

40.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

41.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

42.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

43.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

48.

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.

49.

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

Anatole France

50.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish