Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas Carlyle

Best Quotes about Work

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Robert Benchley

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Don Marquis

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

Kemp, Jack

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

18.

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

Billings, Josh

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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.

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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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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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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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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Ford, Henry

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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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Peter Drucker

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George