Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Chaucer, Geoffrey

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Stengel, Casey

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

24.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Mitchell, Warren

28.

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

29.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

James M. Barrie

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Proverb, French

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.