Motivational Quotes

Work

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

- Fox, Jim

Best Quotes about Work

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

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

Jong, Erica

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

Kemp, Jack

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

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

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

Dodge, B.

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Diller, Phyllis

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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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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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

David Shore

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Ogden Nash

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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