Motivational Quotes

Work

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Work

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

Escher, M. C.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Anatole France

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

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.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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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 substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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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

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Riley, Pat

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Michelangelo

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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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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Mead, Margaret

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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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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Riley, Pat

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Austen, Jane

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Bible

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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