Motivational Quotes

Work

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Work

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

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

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.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Halas, George

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

Voltaire

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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...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

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

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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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.

Robert Benchley

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Robert Morley

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara