Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

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

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Robert Morley

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

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Jong, Erica

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Paterno, Joe

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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 your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Kemp, Jack

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Michelangelo

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom