Motivational Quotes

Work

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

- Benchley, Robert

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

Devine, Dan

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Ruskin, John

10.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

11.

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

12.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

13.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

14.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

Robert Morley

17.

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

18.

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

19.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

20.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

22.

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

23.

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

Ford, Henry

24.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

25.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

27.

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

Rivers, Joan

28.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

30.

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

Lowell, James Russell

31.

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

32.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

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

Bible

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.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

37.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

38.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

39.

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.

40.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

41.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

42.

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

Garfield, James A.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

44.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

45.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.