Motivational Quotes

Work

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

- Slick, Grace

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Carty, Margaret

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Robert Morley

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

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

21.

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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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Oakley, Ann

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

Rivers, Joan

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Halas, George

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Proverb, American

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Benchley, Robert