Motivational Quotes

Work

No one man is superior to the game.

- Giamatti, A. Bartlett

Best Quotes about Work

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Baldwin, James

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

10.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

11.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

12.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

13.

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

Michelangelo

14.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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

18.

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

Billings, Josh

19.

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

20.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

21.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

22.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

24.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

25.

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

26.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

27.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

28.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

Picasso, Pablo

36.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

37.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

38.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

39.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

40.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

41.

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

42.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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

45.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

46.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

48.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

49.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

50.

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