Motivational Quotes

Work

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

- Blow, Susan

Best Quotes about Work

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Robert Benchley

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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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

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Bible

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Twain, Mark

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Michelangelo

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Butler, Samuel

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

David Shore

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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

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

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Hill, Napoleon

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