Motivational Quotes

Work

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Work

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Rivers, Joan

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

11.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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.

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Diller, Phyllis

18.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

20.

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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

27.

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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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Slick, Grace

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

Twain, Mark

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

35.

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.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi