Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- David Shore

Best Quotes about Work

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

David Shore

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Jong, Erica

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Twain, Mark

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

38.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Riley, Pat

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Roosevelt, Theodore