Motivational Quotes

Work

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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

Sand, George

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

Jong, Erica

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Lennon, John

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

Howard Newton

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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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

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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

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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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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Michelangelo

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

David Shore

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Ruskin, John

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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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.