Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

10.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

11.

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

12.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

13.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

14.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

17.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

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

Garfield, James A.

20.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

21.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

22.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

23.

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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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.

26.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

27.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

28.

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

29.

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

30.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

31.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

32.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

33.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

34.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

37.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

38.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

39.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

40.

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 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

42.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

43.

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

Thomas A. Edison

44.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

49.

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

Riley, Pat

50.

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

Jones, Beverly