Motivational Quotes

Work

Want is the mother of industry.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Holtz, Lou

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Blow, Susan

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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

31.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Voltaire

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Pavlova, Anna

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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

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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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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine