Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Barack Obama

Best Quotes about Work

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

10.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

11.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

12.

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

Henry David Thoreau

13.

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

14.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

15.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

16.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

17.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Slick, Grace

21.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

22.

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

23.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

24.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

25.

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

26.

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

Holtz, Lou

27.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

28.

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

Elbert Hubbard

29.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

30.

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

31.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

32.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

33.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

34.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

35.

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

Billings, Josh

36.

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

37.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

40.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

41.

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

Ogden Nash

42.

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

Sam Ewing

43.

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

44.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

45.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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