Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Marquis, Don

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

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

12.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Roosevelt, Theodore

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

David McCullough

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Carty, Margaret

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Proverb

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Escher, M. C.

39.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

43.

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 work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Keller, Helen

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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