Motivational Quotes

Work

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Work

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Michelangelo

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Bible

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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

11.

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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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Keller, Helen

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

25.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

26.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

27.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

28.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Slick, Grace

34.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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

40.

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

Parkinson's Law

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

48.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks