Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Robert Benchley

Best Quotes about Work

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Paterno, Joe

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

15.

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

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

Jong, Erica

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

20.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

27.

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

Proverb

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

30.

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

Dodge, B.

31.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David