Motivational Quotes

Work

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

- Cohen, Leonard

Best Quotes about Work

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Riley, Pat

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.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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...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

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

13.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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 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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Ruskin, John

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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