Motivational Quotes

Work

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

Best Quotes about Work

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

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

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

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

Parkinson's Law

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Book, William Frederick

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

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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