Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the province of cattle.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Work

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Parkinson's Law

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Richard Bach

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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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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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Foster, Jodie

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

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Robert Morley