Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Work

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.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Twain, Mark

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

Riley, Pat

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Prince, Ray

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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Devine, Dan

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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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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Jong, Erica

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Ruskin, John

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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