Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Oakley, Ann

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Oakley, Ann

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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 have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Angelou, Maya

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Keller, Helen

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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

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

Don Marquis

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Jones, Beverly

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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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 thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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.