Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Oakley, Ann

Best Quotes about Work

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Foster, Jodie

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

21.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Carty, Margaret

28.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

34.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

35.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

44.

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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Anatole France

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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.