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

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

Devine, Dan

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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 believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Robert Morley

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

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William