Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Johnson, James Weldon

Best Quotes about Work

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

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

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Carty, Margaret

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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

Don Marquis

11.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

13.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

14.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

16.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

17.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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

20.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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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.

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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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

27.

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

28.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

29.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

30.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

31.

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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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

33.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

34.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

35.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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

37.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

38.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

39.

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

Parkinson's Law

40.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

41.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

43.

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

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

45.

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

Rivers, Joan

46.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

50.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William