Motivational Quotes

Work

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Work

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Riley, Pat

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.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Bob Ross

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

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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

11.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

12.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

13.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

14.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

15.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

16.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

17.

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

Frost, Robert

18.

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.

19.

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

Riley, Pat

20.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

21.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

...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

23.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

24.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

25.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

26.

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

Ford, Henry

27.

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

Picasso, Pablo

28.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

29.

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

Sam Ewing

30.

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

Berra, Yogi

31.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

32.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

33.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

34.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

35.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

Slick, Grace

37.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

38.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

44.

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

Paterno, Joe

45.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

46.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

47.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

48.

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

Bible

49.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray