Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Best Quotes about Work

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Bible

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Foster, Jodie

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

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

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

Frost, Robert

13.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

14.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

18.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

19.

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

Ford, Henry

20.

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

21.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

22.

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

Marquis, Don

23.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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.

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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

Herbert, George

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

30.

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

Slick, Grace

31.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

33.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

34.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

35.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Lennon, John

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

43.

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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

46.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

49.

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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.