Motivational Quotes

Work

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

- Gretzky, Wayne

Best Quotes about Work

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

Keller, Helen

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

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

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Richard Bach

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

10.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

11.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

16.

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

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

18.

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

Dodge, B.

19.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

20.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

21.

...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

22.

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

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Stengel, Casey

25.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

26.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

28.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

29.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

30.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

31.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

34.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

35.

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

Gillis, Dobie

36.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

37.

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

Fox, Jim

38.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

39.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

40.

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

41.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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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

45.

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

46.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

47.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

48.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

49.

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

Sam Ewing

50.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William