Motivational Quotes

Work

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Work

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Gillis, Dobie

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bob Ross

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

31.

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

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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

39.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

40.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

41.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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

43.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.