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

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

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

12.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

13.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

15.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

17.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

19.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

25.

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

Michelangelo

26.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

27.

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

Pavlova, Anna

28.

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

Benchley, Robert

29.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

30.

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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

33.

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

Diller, Phyllis

34.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

35.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

36.

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

Sand, George

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

Proverb, French

40.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

42.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

44.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

45.

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

46.

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

47.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

48.

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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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