Motivational Quotes

Work

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

- Fox, Jim

Best Quotes about Work

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

Pickens, T. Boone

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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

David Shore

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Gillis, Dobie

18.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Lombardi, Vince

27.

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

28.

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

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

36.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

37.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

38.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

39.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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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

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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

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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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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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 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