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

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

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Twain, Mark

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Richard Bach

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Keller, Helen

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Herold, Don

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Austen, Jane

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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.

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

David Shore