Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Proverb, American

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Twain, Mark

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Bible

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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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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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Lowell, James Russell

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Thomas A. Edison

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''