Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

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.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

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

Bible

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

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

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Blow, Susan

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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Barack Obama

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Escher, M. C.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Ogden Nash

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

Keller, Helen

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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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 is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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