Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Work

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Blow, Susan

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

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Work is a four letter word!

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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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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Twain, Mark

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

Book, William Frederick

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Oakley, Ann

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Keller, Helen

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bible

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