Motivational Quotes

Work

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Work

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Proverb

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Riley, Pat

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

David Shore

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Twain, Mark

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

22.

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

Peter Drucker

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Proverb, French

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

Voltaire

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

32.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Jones, Beverly

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

47.

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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.