Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

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

Paterno, Joe

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

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

Twain, Mark

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Keller, Helen

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bible

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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.

Riley, Pat

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning