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

Garfield, James A.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

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

Austen, Jane

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

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

10.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

12.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

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

Butterworth, Eric

15.

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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.

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

21.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

27.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Ford, Henry

42.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

43.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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

48.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

50.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine