Motivational Quotes

Work

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Work

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

Proverb, American

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

Mitchell, Warren

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bible

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

10.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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.

37.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

38.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

David Shore

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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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