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

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.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Diller, Phyllis

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham