Motivational Quotes

Work

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Work

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

Lennon, John

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

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

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Billings, Josh

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Ford, Henry

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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

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

24.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

41.

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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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

James M. Barrie

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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