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

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

Billings, Josh

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

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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.

Schembechler, Bo

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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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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

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

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Devine, Dan

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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.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

James M. Barrie

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

Escher, M. C.

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Riley, Pat

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

Conran, Shirley

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

Dodge, B.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Work is a four letter word!

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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

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Bunuel, Luis

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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.

Green, Estill I.