Motivational Quotes

Work

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

- Sinise, Gary

Best Quotes about Work

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Lowell, James Russell

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Keller, Helen

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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 and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

29.

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

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

Confucius

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

37.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Oakley, Ann

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Fox, Jim

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