Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

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

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Bob Ross

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

David Shore

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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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

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

Dodge, B.

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

33.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Riley, Pat

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

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Bible

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von