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

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Keller, Helen

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

29.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

41.

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

Proverb, American

42.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Milsap, Ronnie