Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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

11.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb, American

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

Escher, M. C.

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

17.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Huxley, Aldous

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

27.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

29.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

30.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

31.

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

Barack Obama

32.

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

34.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Voltaire

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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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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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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

45.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas