Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Jong, Erica

Best Quotes about Work

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

Don Marquis

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.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

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

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

10.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

11.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

12.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

13.

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

Ogden Nash

14.

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

15.

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

David McCullough

16.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

17.

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

18.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

19.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

20.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

21.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

26.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

27.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

28.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Jong, Erica

30.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

31.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

32.

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

33.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

34.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

36.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

37.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

38.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

39.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

40.

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

Huxley, Aldous

41.

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

Keller, Helen

42.

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

Devine, Dan

43.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

44.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

45.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

46.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

47.

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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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

49.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

50.

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

Butler, Samuel