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

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

11.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

12.

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

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

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

17.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

18.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Bible

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Proverb, American

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

32.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William