Motivational Quotes

Work

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

- Daniel Akst

Best Quotes about Work

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

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

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

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.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Don Marquis

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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Picasso, Pablo

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Stengel, Casey

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Barack Obama

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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