Motivational Quotes

Work

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

- Morris, William

Best Quotes about Work

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mitchell, Warren

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Foster, Jodie

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

Bible

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Michelangelo

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