Motivational Quotes

Work

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

- O'Casey, Sean

Best Quotes about Work

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Mansfield, Katherine

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Twain, Mark

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

11.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

12.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

18.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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.

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim