WORK QUOTES X

quotations about work


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Are you the type of person who gets taken in by flattery and ends up staying late to do work others could be doing? What would happen if you said no? These habits are tough to break in organisations, but if you don't gently steer these requests more fairly to others on your team, you will continue to be given more work just because you always say yes and your happiness at work will be undermined. It really is okay for everyone to say no sometimes, as this lets your organisation know that workloads are heavy and assistance may be required.

LOUISE LAMBERT
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"You can't do it all: turning down work is sometimes a necessity", Albawaba Business, February 3, 2016


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No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery.

ORISON SWETT MARDEN

He Can Who Thinks He Can

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No nation can ever fulfil its potential without a positive mindset towards work, a commitment to work, and actual engagement in hard work. Work has to be a principle on which we build. Families should exemplify it, schools must teach it, churches must reinforce it and society must provide the opportunity for all to practice it.

AL MILLER

"The transforming power of work", Jamaica Observer, April 2, 2017


A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

CESARE PAVESE

The Business of Living

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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.

MAXIM GORKY

Untimely Thoughts

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Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction -- a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Walden

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Many hands make light work.

JOHN HEYWOOD

Proverbs

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It is useless work that darkens the heart.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Dispossessed

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This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize that it is play.

ALAN WATTS

The Essence of Alan Watts

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Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much.... I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go on turning a bit after you loose it.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


Measure not the work
Until the day's out and the labour done.

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

Aurora Leigh

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After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Old Gorgon Graham

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Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.

MORTIMER ADLER

A Vision of the Future: Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society


Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse.

MICHEL FOUCAULT

Madness & Civilization

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If all you do in life is work really hard, you're never going to get wealthy. Because it's not enough that you work hard to make money to set some of it aside.... to ensure future wealth, you must equally work smart.

RIC EDELMAN

"Working hard won't make you rich", Business Insider, April 2, 2017


Work is oft a four-letter word, bemoaned, begrudged and belittled by those bored by their nine-to-five routine.

PAULYNE POGORELSKE

"Faith: work is not a dirty word", The Age, March 25, 2017


Changes to the way we work are bringing a focus on both the role of the stand alone workplace, and the design of cities. As co-working spaces evolve to meet the demand of workers for flexible, autonomous and creative work environments, broader changes are occurring in how we work and live.

LIBBY SANDER

"Co-working is evolving to combine co-living", Business Insider, March 29, 2017


Women who don't go OUT to work, of course, are dismissed as homemakers or housewives, with little thought spared for the huge quantum of work they do. Once a baby arrive they become known as stay-at-home mothers (SAHM), perceived to be cooler because "mothering" is a little more specific.

ANUPAMA KAPOOR

"A Woman's Work Is Never Done ... But It Should Be", Huffington Post, January 2, 2016


He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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