Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mcevoy, J. P.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Slick, Grace

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

Coolidge, Calvin

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Ford, Henry

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

Paterno, Joe

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Thomas Carlyle

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

24.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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.

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Twain, Mark

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.