Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Burns, Mamie Sypert

Best Quotes about Work

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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 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.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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

11.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

12.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

13.

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

14.

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

Elbert Hubbard

15.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

16.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

17.

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

Foster, Jodie

18.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

19.

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

Kemp, Jack

20.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

21.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

22.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

23.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

24.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

25.

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

26.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

28.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

29.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

30.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

31.

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

32.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

33.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

34.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

35.

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

36.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

40.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

41.

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

Lennon, John

42.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

43.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

45.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

46.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

47.

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

48.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

49.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

50.

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