Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Bible

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Don Marquis

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.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Blow, Susan

10.

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

Robert Morley

11.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

12.

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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

15.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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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

18.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

19.

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

Escher, M. C.

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

27.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

29.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

31.

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

Richard Bach

33.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

34.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Warhol, Andy

38.

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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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

40.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Voltaire

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

Baldwin, James

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.