Motivational Quotes

Work

Work your way up or rust your way out.

- Holton

Best Quotes about Work

1.

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

2.

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.

3.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

4.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

5.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

6.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

7.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

8.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

9.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

10.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

11.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

12.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

13.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

14.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

15.

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.

16.

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

Hal Lancaster

17.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

18.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

19.

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

Rivers, Joan

20.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

22.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

23.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

24.

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

25.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

26.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

27.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

28.

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

David Shore

29.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

30.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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

Fox, Jim

32.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

33.

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

34.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

35.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

37.

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

Maurois, Andre

38.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

39.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

40.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

41.

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

Holtz, Lou

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Shakarian, David

45.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

46.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

47.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

48.

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

Paterno, Joe

49.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

50.

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

Lincoln, Abraham