Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Parkinson's Law

Best Quotes about Work

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Herold, Don

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Ford, Henry

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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 must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Ruskin, John

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Work is a four letter word!

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Twain, Mark

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Hill, Napoleon