Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Elbert Hubbard

Best Quotes about Work

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

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

Blow, Susan

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

Work is a four letter word!

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Don Marquis

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Jong, Erica

11.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

12.

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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

15.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Bible

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Angelou, Maya

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Prince, Ray

40.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

43.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

45.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

46.

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

47.

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

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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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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law