Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

James M. Barrie

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

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

Jones, Beverly

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

David Shore

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

10.

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

Jong, Erica

11.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

Lennon, John

13.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

15.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

17.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

18.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

19.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

20.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

21.

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

Don Marquis

23.

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

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

Confucius

25.

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

Kemp, Jack

26.

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

Fox, Jim

27.

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

Keller, Helen

28.

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

Riley, Pat

30.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

31.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

32.

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

33.

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

Parkinson's Law

34.

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

35.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

36.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

37.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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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

41.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

43.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

44.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

45.

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

Howard Newton

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Angelou, Maya

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