Motivational Quotes

Work

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

- Parkinson, Joseph

Best Quotes about Work

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Voltaire

10.

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

Marquis, Don

11.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

12.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Butterworth, Eric

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

35.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Halas, George

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

40.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Bible

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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