Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

Coolidge, Calvin

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Voltaire

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

11.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

12.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Billings, Josh

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

18.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

19.

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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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 your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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.

25.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

27.

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

Benchley, Robert

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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

29.

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

30.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

31.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

35.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen