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

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

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

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

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.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Jones, Beverly

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

15.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

16.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

18.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

26.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

27.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Herbert, George

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Jong, Erica

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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

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

Parkinson's Law

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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