Motivational Quotes

Work

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Work

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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.

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

Twain, Mark

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

10.

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

11.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

12.

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

13.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

15.

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 day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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

18.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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

20.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

21.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

22.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

23.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

24.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

25.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

26.

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

Ruskin, John

27.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

29.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

30.

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

Rivers, Joan

31.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

32.

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

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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

40.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

41.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

42.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

44.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

45.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.