Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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 is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

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.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

12.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

18.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Voltaire

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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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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.

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Keller, Helen

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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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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

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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.