Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Work

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Keller, Helen

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Robert Morley

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

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

10.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

11.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Proverb

13.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

15.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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

17.

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

Angelou, Maya

18.

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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

21.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Benchley, Robert

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

29.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

30.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

31.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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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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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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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

Jones, Beverly

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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

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Riley, Pat

45.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

47.

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

Picasso, Pablo

49.

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

50.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese