Motivational Quotes

Work

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Best Quotes about Work

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Keller, Helen

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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Don Marquis

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

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

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

Peter Drucker

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Book, William Frederick

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim