Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Work

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

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Austen, Jane

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

10.

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

11.

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

12.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

13.

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

Prince, Ray

14.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

15.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

16.

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

Slick, Grace

17.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

18.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

19.

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

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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

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

23.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

24.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

25.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

26.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

27.

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

28.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

29.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

31.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

32.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

33.

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

34.

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

Paterno, Joe

35.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

36.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

37.

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.

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.

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

40.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

41.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

42.

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

43.

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

44.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

45.

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

Picasso, Pablo

46.

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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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

49.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

50.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish