Motivational Quotes

Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

- Tessier, Josephine

Best Quotes about Work

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

Butler, Samuel

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Robert Benchley

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

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

Thomas Carlyle

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

12.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Kemp, Jack

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

15.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

David Shore

25.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

26.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

27.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Bible

30.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Lowell, James Russell

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Syrus, Publilius

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

40.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

41.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

47.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.