Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Atkinson, Brooks

Best Quotes about Work

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Bible

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

10.

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

11.

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

Austen, Jane

12.

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

13.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

14.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

15.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

16.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

17.

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

18.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

19.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

20.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

21.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

23.

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

Riley, Pat

24.

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

Elbert Hubbard

25.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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

27.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

29.

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

Kemp, Jack

30.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

31.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

32.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

33.

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.

34.

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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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

36.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

37.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

38.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

39.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

40.

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

Proverb, American

41.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

43.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

44.

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

Book, William Frederick

45.

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

46.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

47.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

48.

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

49.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Labor diligently to increase your property.