Motivational Quotes

Work

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Work

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Weil, Simone

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

10.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

11.

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

Book, William Frederick

12.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

17.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

18.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

19.

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

20.

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

Jones, Beverly

21.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

22.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

23.

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

Jong, Erica

24.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

25.

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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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

27.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

28.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

29.

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

30.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

31.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

32.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

33.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

34.

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

35.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

36.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

37.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

38.

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

Thomas A. Edison

39.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

40.

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

41.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

42.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

43.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

44.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Butler, Samuel

46.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

47.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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