Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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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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

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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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 no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Rohn, Jim

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Proverb, French

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Prince, Ray

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil