Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

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

Lombardi, Vince

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Escher, M. C.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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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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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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.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Oakley, Ann

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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 secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Rohn, Jim