Motivational Quotes

Work

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Work

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Mitchell, Warren

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hal Lancaster

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Jones, Beverly

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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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

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Frost, Robert

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

Prince, Ray

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Work is a four letter word!

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette