Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Work

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

Parkinson, Joseph

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Anatole France

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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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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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...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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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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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

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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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

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Allen, James

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Lennon, John

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

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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 put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps