Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Work

1.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

2.

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

James M. Barrie

3.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

4.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

5.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

6.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

7.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

8.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

9.

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

Robert Morley

10.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

11.

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

Keller, Helen

12.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

13.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

14.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

15.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

16.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

17.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

18.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

19.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

20.

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

21.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

22.

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

Riley, Pat

23.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

24.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

25.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

26.

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

Devine, Dan

27.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

28.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

29.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

30.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

31.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

32.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

34.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

38.

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

39.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

40.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

41.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

42.

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

Anatole France

43.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.