Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Work

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

Peter Drucker

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Carty, Margaret

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bible

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

19.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

20.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

21.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

22.

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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

25.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

30.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

31.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

32.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

42.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

43.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

Devine, Dan

48.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

49.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara