Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

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

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

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

Jones, Beverly

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hal Lancaster

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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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

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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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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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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

LeMond, Greg

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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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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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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Riley, Pat

30.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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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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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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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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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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 man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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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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

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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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

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert