Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

10.

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

Rivers, Joan

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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 man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Robert Benchley

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Keller, Helen

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

33.

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

Peter Drucker

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

35.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

James M. Barrie

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Gorky, Maxim

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Keller, Helen

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

Confucius

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.