Motivational Quotes

Work

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Work

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

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

Frost, Robert

11.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Oakley, Ann

15.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

18.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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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

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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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...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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

35.

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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

37.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

38.

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

David McCullough

40.

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

Allen, James

41.

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

Jones, Beverly

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

47.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary