Motivational Quotes

Work

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Work

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Jong, Erica

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

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Maurois, Andre

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

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

James M. Barrie

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bible

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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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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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Herold, Don

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.