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

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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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

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle