Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Pavlova, Anna

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

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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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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

12.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

18.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

19.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

27.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Blow, Susan

34.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

35.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Don Marquis

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

Marquis, Don

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Keller, Helen

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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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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.