Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Halas, George

Best Quotes about Work

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

14.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

15.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

16.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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

18.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

19.

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

David McCullough

20.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

21.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

22.

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

23.

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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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

26.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

27.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

30.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

31.

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

32.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

34.

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

35.

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

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

38.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Weil, Simone

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

Blow, Susan

43.

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

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Atkinson, Brooks

49.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques