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

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

Block, A Harvey

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

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Lennon, John

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

David Shore

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Ruskin, John

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Devine, Dan

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Prince, Ray

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Riley, Pat

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

Paterno, Joe

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

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Bunuel, Luis

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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.

Auden, W. H.

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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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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo