Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Austen, Jane

Best Quotes about Work

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

Rivers, Joan

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Keller, Helen

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Pickens, T. Boone

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

12.

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

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Voltaire

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Bible

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Robert Morley

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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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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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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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

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

Bible

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Book, William Frederick

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis