Motivational Quotes

Work

Men have become the tools of their trade.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Work

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Reagan, Ronald

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Lowell, James Russell

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

12.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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

14.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

15.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

18.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

19.

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

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

21.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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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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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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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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

27.

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

28.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Richard Bach

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

32.

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

Diller, Phyllis

33.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

34.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

35.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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.

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

Romer, Frank

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

40.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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.

John Ruskin

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

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

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

Proverb, French