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

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.

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

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Thomas A. Edison

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

Rivers, Joan

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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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

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Proverb, American

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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

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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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

David McCullough

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash