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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Ogden Nash

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Thomas A. Edison

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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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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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Blow, Susan

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Proverb

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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