Motivational Quotes

Work

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

- Mcintosh, M. C.

Best Quotes about Work

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Oakley, Ann

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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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

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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Work is a four letter word!

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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

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Twain, Mark

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Dodge, B.

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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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

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

Herbert, George

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Ford, Henry

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Michelangelo

40.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

42.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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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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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

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

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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

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

Robert Benchley