Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Jong, Erica

Best Quotes about Work

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Parkinson's Law

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

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

10.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

11.

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

Lennon, John

12.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Don Marquis

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

18.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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.

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

28.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

29.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Michelangelo

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

48.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Thomas A. Edison