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

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

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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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.

John Ruskin

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

27.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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

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

Bob Ross

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

35.

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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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 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

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Prince, Ray

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Mitchell, Warren