Motivational Quotes

Work

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

- Chrysosatom, St. John

Best Quotes about Work

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Marquis, Don

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

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

Halas, George

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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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

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

LeMond, Greg

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

14.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

15.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Carty, Margaret

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Jong, Erica

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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 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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

37.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

38.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Bob Ross

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis