Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

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

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

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

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Mitchell, Warren

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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

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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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

Richard Bach

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Devine, Dan

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

Austen, Jane

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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.

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo