Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Work

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

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

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

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Barack Obama

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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 brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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.

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Michelangelo

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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 necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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