Motivational Quotes

Work

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

- Carty, Margaret

Best Quotes about Work

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

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Prince, Ray

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Work is a four letter word!

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Jong, Erica

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Proverb, French

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jones, Beverly

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

33.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Halas, George

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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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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

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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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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg