Motivational Quotes

Work

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

- Morrow, Lance

Best Quotes about Work

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

Oakley, Ann

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Voltaire

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Jong, Erica

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

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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.

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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Barzan, Gerald

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Austen, Jane

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Devine, Dan

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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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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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.