Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Twain, Mark

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

10.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

20.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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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

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

Howard Newton

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Herbert, George

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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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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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

43.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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

45.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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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

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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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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert