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

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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.

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

Robert Benchley

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Butler, Samuel

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Benchley, Robert

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Slick, Grace

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

Prince, Ray

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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

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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.