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

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Ashford, Evelyn

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

Cohen, Leonard

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Huxley, Aldous

10.

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

11.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

12.

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

Lennon, John

13.

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

14.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

15.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

16.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

17.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

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

19.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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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.

21.

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

Riley, Pat

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

28.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

29.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

30.

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

Riley, Pat

31.

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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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

33.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

34.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

35.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

37.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

39.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Angelou, Maya

42.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

43.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

44.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

45.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

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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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

49.

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

Baldwin, James

50.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote