Motivational Quotes

Work

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Work

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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.

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

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Keller, Helen

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

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Shakarian, David

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Maurois, Andre

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Lowell, James Russell

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett