Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the province of cattle.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Work

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

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

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

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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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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.

John Ruskin

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

Proverb

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Ford, Henry

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Butler, Samuel

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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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.