Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Rivers, Joan

Best Quotes about Work

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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.

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

Twain, Mark

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Proverb

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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 particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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 highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Weil, Simone

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

43.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Billings, Josh

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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