Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Parkinson's Law

Best Quotes about Work

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.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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

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

Bible

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Twain, Mark

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Angelou, Maya

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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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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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Escher, M. C.