Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Peter Drucker

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.

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

Twain, Mark

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

10.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

12.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Bhagavad Gita

14.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

Lennon, John

19.

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

Jong, Erica

20.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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

23.

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

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

25.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

27.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

28.

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

29.

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

Kemp, Jack

30.

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

Book, William Frederick

31.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

32.

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

Baldwin, James

33.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

34.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Proverb, American

36.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

37.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

38.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

39.

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

41.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

42.

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

43.

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

Jones, Beverly

44.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

45.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

46.

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

Elbert Hubbard

47.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

48.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

49.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

50.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William