Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Hal Lancaster

Best Quotes about Work

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Riley, Pat

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

12.

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.

13.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

15.

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

Hal Lancaster

16.

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

17.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

18.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

19.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Slick, Grace

23.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

24.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

25.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

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

Lowell, James Russell

28.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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

30.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

31.

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

Bob Ross

32.

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

33.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

34.

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.

35.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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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

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

Riley, Pat

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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

41.

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.

42.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

43.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

44.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

45.

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Twain, Mark

48.

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

Garfield, James A.

49.

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

Marquis, Don

50.

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.