Motivational Quotes

Work

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

- David Shore

Best Quotes about Work

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

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

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

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Escher, M. C.

17.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lennon, John

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Jones, Beverly

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Elbert Hubbard

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

33.

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

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Voltaire

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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.

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

Frost, Robert

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.