Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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

Baldwin, James

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Jong, Erica

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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 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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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.

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Picasso, Pablo

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Angelou, Maya

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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.

Crandall, Robert

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.