Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Work

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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.

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

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Paterno, Joe

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kemp, Jack

10.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

11.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

12.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

13.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

14.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

15.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

16.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

17.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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.

20.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

21.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

22.

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

23.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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.

25.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

28.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

29.

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

Proverb, American

30.

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

31.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

35.

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

Rivers, Joan

36.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

37.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

38.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

42.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

45.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

46.

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

Dodge, B.

47.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

48.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

49.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

50.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George