Quotes about work

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

— Louisa May Alcott

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

— Shirley Conran

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.

— Betty Friedan

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.

— Charlotte P. Gillman

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

— Beverly Jones

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.

— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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.

— Margaret Mead

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

— Ann Oakley

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.

— Edith Mendel Stern

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

— Katharine Whitehorn

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

— Oscar Wilde

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

— James Baldwin

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

— Yogi Berra

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

— A Harvey Block

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

— Wayne Calloway

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

— Margaret Carty

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

— Robert Crandall

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

— Dan Devine

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

— B. Dodge

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

— Henry Ford

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

— Dr. Allan Fromme

No one man is superior to the game.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

— Estill I. Green

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

— George Herbert

Many hands make light work.

— John Heywood

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

— Napoleon Hill

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

— Lou Holtz

Light is the task where many share the toil.

— Homer

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

— Earvin ''Magic'' Johnson

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

— John F. Kennedy

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.

— Tom Landry

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

— Vince Lombardi

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

— Vince Lombardi

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.

— Vince Lombardi

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

— Vince Lombardi

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

— Douglas Murray Mcgregor

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

— Margaret Mead

Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.

— Midrash

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

— Akio Morita

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.

— David Ogilvy

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

— Joe Paterno

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.

— Ethiopian Proverb

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

— Pat Riley

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

— Pat Riley

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

— Pat Riley

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

— Pat Riley

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

— Pat Riley

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

— Pat Riley

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

— Pat Riley

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.

— David Robinson

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

— John Rollwagen

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

— Babe Ruth

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

— Martin Rutte

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.

— Michael De Saintamo

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

— Bo Schembechler

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

— Casey Stengel

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.

— Brian Tracy

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

— Source Unknown

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

— Source Unknown

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

— Source Unknown

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.

— Source Unknown

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

— Source Unknown

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

— Source Unknown

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

— Source Unknown

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

— Source Unknown

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

— Source Unknown

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.

— Denis Waitley

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

— Bud Wilkinson

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

— James Allen

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

— Maya Angelou

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

— Brooks Atkinson

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.

— W. H. Auden

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.

— W. H. Auden

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

— Colleen C. Barrett

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

— Bernard M. Baruch

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

— Gerald Barzan

Inspiration comes of working every day.

— Charles Baudelaire

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

— Henry Ward Beecher

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

— Robert Benchley

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

— Bhagavad Gita

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

— Bible

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

— Bible

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

— Bible

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

— Josh Billings

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

— Susan Blow

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

— William Frederick Book

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

— William Frederick Book

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

— Michael Bridge

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

— Joseph Brodsky

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

— Emily Bronte

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

— Dean Charles R. Brown

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

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning