Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Baldwin, James

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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.

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

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

Ashford, Evelyn

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio