Motivational Quotes

Work

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Work

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

Gorky, Maxim

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

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

Michelangelo

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Frost, Robert

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Book, William Frederick

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

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

Devine, Dan

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

Reagan, Ronald

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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 more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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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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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.