Motivational Quotes

Work

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Work

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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

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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

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

Parkinson's Law

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Don Marquis

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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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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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.

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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

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

Jones, Beverly

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Proverb, French

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.