Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Kollwitz, KaThe

Best Quotes about Work

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Prince, Ray

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bible

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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Keller, Helen

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

31.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

33.

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

Rivers, Joan

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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

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Baldwin, James

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

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

43.

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

Escher, M. C.

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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