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

Work is a four letter word!

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

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Dodge, B.

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

Bob Ross

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Riley, Pat

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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...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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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.

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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Riley, Pat

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

Pavlova, Anna

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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

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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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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 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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.