Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Work

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

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

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

23.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

26.

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

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

Kemp, Jack

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

41.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Foster, Jodie

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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

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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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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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