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 sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Lennon, John

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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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 is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Baldwin, James

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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

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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 suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Shakarian, David

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

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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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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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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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

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

LeMond, Greg

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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