Motivational Quotes

Work

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

- Chaucer, Geoffrey

Best Quotes about Work

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.

Bridge, Michael

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.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

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

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Picasso, Pablo

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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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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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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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

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

James M. Barrie

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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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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.

Riley, Pat

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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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