Motivational Quotes

Work

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

- Atkinson, Brooks

Best Quotes about Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

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

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

10.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

11.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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 do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

14.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

16.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

18.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

19.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

20.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

21.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

22.

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

23.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

24.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

25.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Diller, Phyllis

28.

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Jong, Erica

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

Elbert Hubbard

32.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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.

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gorky, Maxim

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

42.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

43.

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

Marquis, Don

44.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

Lombardi, Vince

47.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison