Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Don Marquis

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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 daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

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

Voltaire

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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.

Robert Benchley

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ruskin, John

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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 the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Rutte, Martin

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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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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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Twain, Mark

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

Jones, Beverly

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

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

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

Peter Drucker

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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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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Barack Obama