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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Twain, Mark

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

LeMond, Greg

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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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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

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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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

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

Barack Obama

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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