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

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

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

Prince, Ray

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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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 person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Bible

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Paterno, Joe

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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