Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

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

Michelangelo

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

Huxley, Aldous

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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

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

Sam Ewing

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Barack Obama

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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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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

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

David Shore

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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