Motivational Quotes

Work

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

- Jong, Erica

Best Quotes about Work

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Sam Ewing

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

10.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

11.

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

Jones, Beverly

12.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

13.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

14.

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

Book, William Frederick

15.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

16.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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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.

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

19.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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

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

Billings, Josh

23.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

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

25.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Ogden Nash

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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

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

Austen, Jane

31.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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

Michelangelo

33.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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

42.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

43.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

44.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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