Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Best Quotes about Work

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

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

Billings, Josh

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ford, Henry

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Maurois, Andre

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Ogden Nash

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

Rohn, Jim

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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

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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

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Jong, Erica

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