Motivational Quotes

Work

If food were free, why work?

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Work

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Devine, Dan

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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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 working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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 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

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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Book, William Frederick

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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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

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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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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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

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

Bible