Motivational Quotes

Work

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

- Morris, William

Best Quotes about Work

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Devine, Dan

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lombardi, Vince

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Jong, Erica

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

12.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Paterno, Joe

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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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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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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Robert Benchley

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Ford, Henry

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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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

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

Ogden Nash

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham