Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Work

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

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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 excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Proverb, French

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Ogden Nash

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

Paterno, Joe

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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

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

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

Prince, Ray

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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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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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

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Twain, Mark

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Work is a four letter word!

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.