Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

- Barrett, Colleen C.

Best Quotes about Work

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

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

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

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Baldwin, James

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

28.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

30.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Halas, George

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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