Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Work

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

Frost, Robert

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Keller, Helen

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Keller, Helen

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

11.

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

Baldwin, James

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

19.

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, American

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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.