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

Barzan, Gerald

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

Rivers, Joan

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

Bible

10.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

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

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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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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Book, William Frederick

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

17.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Henry J. Kaiser

20.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

22.

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

Marquis, Don

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

26.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

27.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Peter Drucker

35.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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

41.

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

Ford, Henry

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

46.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud