Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Best Quotes about Work

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Jong, Erica

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Ford, Henry

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

Lombardi, Vince

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

11.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

12.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

13.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

15.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

16.

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.

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Keller, Helen

20.

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

Foster, Jodie

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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

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

24.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

25.

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

26.

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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

30.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

31.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

32.

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

Paterno, Joe

33.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

35.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

James M. Barrie

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Frost, Robert

40.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.