Motivational Quotes

Work

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

- Cohen, Leonard

Best Quotes about Work

1.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

2.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

3.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

7.

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

Proverb, American

8.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

9.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

10.

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

11.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

12.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

13.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

14.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

15.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

16.

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

Proverb

17.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

18.

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

Garfield, James A.

19.

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

Frost, Robert

20.

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

Michelangelo

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

24.

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

Robert Morley

25.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

26.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

30.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

32.

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.

33.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

34.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

35.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

36.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

37.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

38.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

39.

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

40.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

41.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

42.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

43.

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

44.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

45.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

46.

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

47.

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

48.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

49.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

50.

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