Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Jong, Erica

Best Quotes about Work

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

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Robert Benchley

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Rivers, Joan

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mitchell, Warren

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Bible

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Oakley, Ann

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.