Motivational Quotes

Work

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

- Szasz, Thomas

Best Quotes about Work

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Thomas Carlyle

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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.

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 I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Lennon, John

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Keller, Helen

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

30.

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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

35.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

David Shore

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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.