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

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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Work is a four letter word!

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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

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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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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.

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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.