Motivational Quotes

Work

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

- Bob Ross

Best Quotes about Work

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

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

Rivers, Joan

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

Drucker, Peter F.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

James M. Barrie

11.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

12.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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...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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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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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Blow, Susan

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Prince, Ray

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

David McCullough

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

43.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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 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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps