Motivational Quotes

Work

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

- Oakley, Ann

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Book, William Frederick

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

10.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

11.

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

12.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

13.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

20.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

21.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

23.

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

Ruskin, John

24.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

25.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

26.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

27.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

28.

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

Richard Bach

29.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

30.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

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

David McCullough

32.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

33.

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

34.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

35.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

36.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

37.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

38.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

39.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

40.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

41.

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

Escher, M. C.

42.

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

43.

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

Maurois, Andre

44.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

45.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

46.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

47.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

49.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

50.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey