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 not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Kemp, Jack

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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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

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

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

Baldwin, James

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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.

28.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

29.

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

Bob Ross

30.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Devine, Dan

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

39.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

46.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

48.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark