Motivational Quotes

Work

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Work

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

David Shore

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

Jones, Beverly

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Twain, Mark

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Romer, Frank

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

28.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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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 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

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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

39.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

43.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

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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.

John Ruskin

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

47.

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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.