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

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

Richard Bach

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

10.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

11.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

16.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Twain, Mark

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Holtz, Lou

27.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Rivers, Joan

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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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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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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

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Slick, Grace

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Book, William Frederick

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard