Motivational Quotes

Work

Want is the mother of industry.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Butler, Samuel

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Blow, Susan

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Herold, Don

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

Voltaire

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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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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Don Marquis

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Richard Bach

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Twain, Mark

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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 question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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

Lennon, John

37.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Weil, Simone

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

Anatole France

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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

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

Carty, Margaret

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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.