Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Oakley, Ann

Best Quotes about Work

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

David Shore

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Work is a four letter word!

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

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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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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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Proverb, French

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Kemp, Jack

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps