Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

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

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

LeMond, Greg

10.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

11.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

12.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

13.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Shakarian, David

16.

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

17.

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

Allen, James

18.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

19.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

20.

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

Foster, Jodie

21.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

22.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

23.

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

24.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

25.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

26.

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

27.

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

Kemp, Jack

28.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

29.

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

30.

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

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

32.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

33.

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

34.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

35.

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

Michelangelo

36.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

37.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

38.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

39.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

40.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

41.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

42.

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

Riley, Pat

43.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

44.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

45.

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

Lombardi, Vince

46.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

47.

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

Sand, George

48.

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

Devine, Dan

49.

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

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

Bhagavad Gita