Motivational Quotes

Work

Better to burn out than rust out.

- Young, Neil

Best Quotes about Work

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

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Austen, Jane

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

10.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

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

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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

15.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

16.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

17.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

18.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Ogden Nash

20.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

21.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

25.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

27.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

28.

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

Romer, Frank

29.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

30.

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

31.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

32.

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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Voltaire

40.

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

41.

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

Escher, M. C.

42.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

43.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

44.

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

45.

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

Riley, Pat

46.

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

47.

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

49.

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

50.

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