Motivational Quotes

Work

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

- Brown, Dean Charles R.

Best Quotes about Work

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Robert Morley

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

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Prince, Ray

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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 labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

28.

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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Book, William Frederick

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Bible

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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 work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish