Motivational Quotes

Work

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

- Arnold, Matthew

Best Quotes about Work

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

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

Rivers, Joan

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Keller, Helen

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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

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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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

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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.

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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.

John Ruskin

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

Jong, Erica

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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.

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Twain, Mark

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.