Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Jong, Erica

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

Dodge, B.

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Proverb, French

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Don Marquis

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Proverb, American

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Bible

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Lowell, James Russell

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph