Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Work

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

Keller, Helen

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

Kemp, Jack

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Barack Obama

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

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

Jong, Erica

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

10.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

11.

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

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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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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...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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

19.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

20.

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

Foster, Jodie

21.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

23.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

24.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

27.

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

Riley, Pat

28.

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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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

30.

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

Lennon, John

31.

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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

33.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

34.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

35.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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

41.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

42.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

44.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

45.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

46.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

47.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

48.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

49.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas