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

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.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

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

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Michelangelo

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Book, William Frederick

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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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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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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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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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Ruskin, John

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

James M. Barrie

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish