Motivational Quotes

Work

There is no substitute for hard work.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

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

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

Kemp, Jack

10.

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

11.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

13.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

15.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

16.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

18.

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

Riley, Pat

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

22.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

23.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

24.

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

25.

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

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

27.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

29.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

30.

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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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

32.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

33.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

36.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

38.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

40.

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

Oprah Winfrey

41.

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.

42.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

43.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

44.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

45.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

46.

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

47.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

48.

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

49.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

50.

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

Ford, Henry