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

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

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

Voltaire

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

Book, William Frederick

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Atkinson, Brooks

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Hepburn, Katharine

10.

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

Barzan, Gerald

11.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

12.

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

Thomas Carlyle

13.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

14.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

16.

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Bible

18.

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

19.

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

Lombardi, Vince

20.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

21.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

22.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

23.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

24.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

25.

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

Fox, Jim

26.

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

Angelou, Maya

27.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

28.

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

Ford, Henry

29.

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

Benchley, Robert

30.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

31.

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

32.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

33.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

37.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

38.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

39.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

40.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

41.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

42.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

43.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

44.

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

45.

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

Robert Morley

46.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

47.

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

Michelangelo

48.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

49.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible