Motivational Quotes

Work

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Work

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Billings, Josh

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.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

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

Shakarian, David

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

10.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

11.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

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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 true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Austen, Jane

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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

34.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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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

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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

44.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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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 sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Diller, Phyllis