Motivational Quotes

Work

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Keller, Helen

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

Devine, Dan

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

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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.

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.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

10.

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

Lennon, John

11.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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.

13.

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

Maurois, Andre

14.

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.

15.

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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

17.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

18.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

21.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

24.

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

Richard Bach

25.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

26.

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

27.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

28.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

30.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

31.

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

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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

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

Oakley, Ann

34.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

35.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Sand, George

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

Sam Ewing

39.

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

Confucius

40.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

43.

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

Pavlova, Anna

44.

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

Carty, Margaret

45.

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

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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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

48.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

49.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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