Motivational Quotes

Work

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

- Robert Morley

Best Quotes about Work

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Stengel, Casey

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.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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.

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

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

10.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

11.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

12.

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

13.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Dodge, B.

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

17.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

21.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

25.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

26.

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

Confucius

27.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

30.

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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

33.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

37.

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

Jones, Beverly

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Paterno, Joe

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

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

45.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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

47.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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

49.

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

Blow, Susan