Motivational Quotes

Work

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Best Quotes about Work

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Robert Benchley

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

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

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Michelangelo

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Billings, Josh

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Maurois, Andre

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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 is a four letter word!

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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie