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

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

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Bob Ross

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

10.

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Twain, Mark

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

19.

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

Jones, Beverly

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Twain, Mark

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

43.

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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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

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

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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau