Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Dodge, B.

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

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Ford, Henry

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

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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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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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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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

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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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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Oprah Winfrey

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Parkinson's Law

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Gillis, Dobie

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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.

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt