Motivational Quotes

Work

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

- Chrysosatom, St. John

Best Quotes about Work

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

David McCullough

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Jones, Beverly

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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.

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

28.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work is a four letter word!

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Ogden Nash

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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.