Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Angelou, Maya

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Michelangelo

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

Sand, George

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Escher, M. C.

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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