Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Work

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Jones, Beverly

11.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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

15.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

16.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

17.

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

Ford, Henry

18.

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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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.

20.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

21.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

22.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

23.

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

Stengel, Casey

24.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

25.

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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

28.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

29.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

33.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

35.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

40.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Jong, Erica

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

43.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''