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

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

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

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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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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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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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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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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Diller, Phyllis

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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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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.

John Ruskin

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Blow, Susan

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Twain, Mark

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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