Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

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

Howard Newton

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Oakley, Ann

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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

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

42.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

44.

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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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.