Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Jones, Beverly

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

10.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

11.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

12.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

13.

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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Thomas A. Edison

18.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

19.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

20.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

21.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

28.

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

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

30.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

31.

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

Marquis, Don

32.

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

David Shore

33.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

34.

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

35.

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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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Twain, Mark

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

40.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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