Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Hill, Napoleon

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Stengel, Casey

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Book, William Frederick

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Herbert, George

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Oakley, Ann

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Frost, Robert

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Jong, Erica

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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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

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer