Motivational Quotes

Work

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Work

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Riley, Pat

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.

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

Lombardi, Vince

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Escher, M. C.

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

LeMond, Greg

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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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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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.

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Jones, Beverly

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

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Jong, Erica

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Henry David Thoreau