Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

Work is a four letter word!

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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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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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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

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

14.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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

18.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

19.

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

20.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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.

29.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

30.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

31.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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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

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

43.

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

Riley, Pat

44.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

49.

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.

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul