Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Bible

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Halas, George

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

10.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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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

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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

Keller, Helen

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

David McCullough

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

Michelangelo

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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