Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Parkinson's Law

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Jones, Beverly

10.

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

11.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

12.

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.

13.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

14.

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

Jong, Erica

16.

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

17.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

19.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

25.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

28.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

29.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

30.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Voltaire

33.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

37.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

38.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

43.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.