Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Garfield, James A.

Best Quotes about Work

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Bible

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

Proverb, American

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

11.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

12.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

13.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

14.

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

Carty, Margaret

15.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

16.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

18.

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

Confucius

19.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

20.

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

21.

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

22.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

23.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

24.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

25.

Work is a four letter word!

26.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

27.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

28.

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

29.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

30.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

31.

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

32.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Dodge, B.

36.

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

Richard Bach

37.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

38.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

39.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

41.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

42.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

43.

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

44.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

47.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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

49.

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

50.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish