Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Oakley, Ann

Best Quotes about Work

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

Herold, Don

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

11.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

12.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

James M. Barrie

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

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

Proverb, French

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

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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

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Bible

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

Ogden Nash

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon