Motivational Quotes

Work

...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

Best Quotes about Work

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

10.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

12.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

13.

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

Prince, Ray

14.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

16.

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.

17.

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

David Shore

18.

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.

19.

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

Richard Bach

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Blow, Susan

23.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

24.

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

Dodge, B.

25.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

26.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

27.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

28.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

29.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

31.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

Bhagavad Gita

34.

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

35.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

36.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

37.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

38.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

39.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

40.

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

41.

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

Billings, Josh

42.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

43.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

44.

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

Fox, Jim

45.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

46.

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

47.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

49.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.