Motivational Quotes

Work

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

- Garfield, James A.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Halas, George

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

Proverb, French

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

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.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

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

Holtz, Lou

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Ruskin, John

10.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

11.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

14.

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

Bible

15.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

16.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

17.

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

18.

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

19.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

20.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

21.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

23.

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

24.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

25.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

26.

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

27.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

28.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

29.

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

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

Riley, Pat

31.

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

32.

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

Stengel, Casey

33.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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

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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

38.

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

39.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

40.

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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

42.

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.

43.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

44.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

45.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

46.

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

Robert Benchley

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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

48.

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

Escher, M. C.

49.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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