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

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Escher, M. C.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Barack Obama

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

10.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

11.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

15.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

18.

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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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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

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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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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Fox, Jim

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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