Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Work

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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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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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

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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.

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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.

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

27.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

30.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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.

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Dodge, B.

41.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.