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

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Thomas Carlyle

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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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.

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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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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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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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Bob Ross

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Angelou, Maya

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Riley, Pat

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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