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

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.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Comaneci, Nadia

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

15.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

18.

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

David McCullough

19.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

20.

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

Robert Benchley

21.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

22.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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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

27.

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

Carty, Margaret

28.

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

Halas, George

29.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

32.

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

33.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

34.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

36.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

37.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Book, William Frederick

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

43.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

44.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

45.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

46.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

48.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

49.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael