Motivational Quotes

Work

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

- Valery, Paul

Best Quotes about Work

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

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

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Don Marquis

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Jong, Erica

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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 while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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

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

Howard Newton

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Marquis, Don

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

43.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald