Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Work

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

11.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

13.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

15.

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

Don Marquis

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

18.

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

Bible

19.

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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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.

Robert Benchley

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

24.

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

Barzan, Gerald

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

27.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

28.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

30.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

31.

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

32.

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

Parkinson's Law

33.

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

34.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Rivers, Joan

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

37.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

40.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

41.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.