Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Work

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Robert Morley

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Don Marquis

11.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

12.

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

James M. Barrie

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

14.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

15.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Carty, Margaret

22.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

25.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

27.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

28.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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

32.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

33.

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

Maurois, Andre

34.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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.

37.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Baldwin, James

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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

47.

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.

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

49.

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

Bible