Motivational Quotes

Work

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

- Cohen, Leonard

Best Quotes about Work

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Riley, Pat

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

Riley, Pat

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Allen, James

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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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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 working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Prince, Ray

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Newton, Sir Isaac