Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Work

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Oakley, Ann

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

10.

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

Maurois, Andre

11.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Rutte, Martin

14.

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

James M. Barrie

15.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

16.

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

17.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

19.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

20.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

21.

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

22.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

23.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

24.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

25.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

28.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

30.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

31.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

32.

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

Romer, Frank

33.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

34.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

35.

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

Keller, Helen

36.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

37.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

38.

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

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

40.

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

Herbert, George

41.

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

42.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

44.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

45.

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

Stengel, Casey

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