Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Kemp, Jack

Best Quotes about Work

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

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

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

12.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

13.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

14.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Work is a four letter word!

20.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

21.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

22.

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

David Shore

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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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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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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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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

34.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

35.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Devine, Dan

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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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

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.