Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

...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

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rohn, Jim

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Parkinson, Joseph

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

10.

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

11.

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

Prince, Ray

12.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

13.

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

14.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

15.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

16.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Twain, Mark

18.

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

Lennon, John

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

20.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

21.

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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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

25.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

27.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

28.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

29.

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

Richard Bach

31.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

32.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

33.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

35.

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

Rutte, Martin

36.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

39.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

40.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

42.

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

Bible

43.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

44.

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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

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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

49.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar