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

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Jong, Erica

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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.

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Foster, Jodie

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Keller, Helen

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

David McCullough

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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