Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Work

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

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

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

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bible

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

10.

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

Syrus, Publilius

11.

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

12.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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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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

16.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

17.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

18.

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

19.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

20.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

21.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

22.

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

23.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

24.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

25.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Riley, Pat

28.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

30.

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

Picasso, Pablo

31.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

34.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

38.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

39.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

43.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ford, Henry

45.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

49.

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

50.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George