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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Richard Bach

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

David McCullough

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

10.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

11.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

12.

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

Rivers, Joan

13.

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

14.

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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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

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

19.

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

Dodge, B.

20.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

21.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Herbert, George

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

Keller, Helen

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

30.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

31.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

38.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

39.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

44.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac