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

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Keller, Helen

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Prince, Ray

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

11.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

12.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

18.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

21.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Book, William Frederick

31.

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

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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.

Robert Benchley

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

37.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

40.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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 really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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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.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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