Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Keller, Helen

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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

11.

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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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.

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

20.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

21.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Billings, Josh

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

24.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bible

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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

28.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

30.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

32.

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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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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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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

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

Baldwin, James

45.

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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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

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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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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

49.

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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.