Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Angelou, Maya

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Keller, Helen

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

12.

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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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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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

15.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

16.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

17.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

21.

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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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

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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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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Elbert Hubbard

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Twain, Mark

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

40.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

41.

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Barack Obama

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.