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

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Peter Drucker

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Oakley, Ann

10.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

11.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

14.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

16.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

17.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

19.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

20.

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

21.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

22.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

23.

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

Syrus, Publilius

24.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

25.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

28.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

29.

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

Ford, Henry

30.

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

Riley, Pat

31.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

32.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

33.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

34.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

35.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

36.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

37.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

39.

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

Richard Bach

40.

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

Riley, Pat

41.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

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.

43.

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

Thomas A. Edison

44.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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

46.

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

47.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

48.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

49.

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

Keller, Helen

50.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine