Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Milsap, Ronnie

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

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

10.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Kemp, Jack

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

18.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Michelangelo

21.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Jones, Beverly

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Twain, Mark

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

Devine, Dan

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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

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Rivers, Joan

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

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Benchley, Robert