Motivational Quotes

Work

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Best Quotes about Work

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Milsap, Ronnie

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Lombardi, Vince

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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 effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Ogden Nash

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

LeMond, Greg

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Prince, Ray

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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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 ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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 consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark