Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Johnson, Samuel

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

LeMond, Greg

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.

John Ruskin

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

Mitchell, Warren

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

13.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

14.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

15.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

16.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Thomas A. Edison

20.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

21.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

22.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

23.

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

Riley, Pat

24.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

26.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

27.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

28.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

29.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Oprah Winfrey

32.

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.

33.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

34.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

35.

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

Don Marquis

36.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

37.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

41.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

44.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

45.

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

Carty, Margaret

46.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

47.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

48.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

49.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

50.

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