Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Jones, Beverly

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

19.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

20.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Marquis, Don

24.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

27.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Carty, Margaret

33.

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

Maurois, Andre

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Richard Bach

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

42.

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

Austen, Jane

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

44.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

45.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

46.

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

Proverb

47.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.