Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

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

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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.

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

Jong, Erica

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Hal Lancaster

20.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Herbert, George

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 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