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

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Paterno, Joe

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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.