Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Milsap, Ronnie

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Voltaire

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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 never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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.

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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 time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Anatole France

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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