Motivational Quotes

Work

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

- Parkinson's Law

Best Quotes about Work

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Lowell, James Russell

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Ford, Henry

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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 secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Paterno, Joe

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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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

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Maurois, Andre

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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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

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers