Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Work

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

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Rivers, Joan

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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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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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

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

David McCullough

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

Stengel, Casey

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Herbert, George

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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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