Motivational Quotes

Work

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

- Barack Obama

Best Quotes about Work

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

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.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Oakley, Ann

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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

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Gillis, Dobie

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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

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

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

Peter Drucker