Motivational Quotes

Work

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

- Johnny Carson

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Rutte, Martin

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Proverb, French

Work is a four letter word!

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Paterno, Joe

10.

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

11.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

12.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

13.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

14.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

15.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

16.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Oprah Winfrey

18.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

20.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

21.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

22.

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

Fox, Jim

23.

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

Lombardi, Vince

24.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

25.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

27.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

28.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

29.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

31.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

34.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

35.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

37.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

38.

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

Marquis, Don

39.

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

Garfield, James A.

40.

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

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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

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

Bhagavad Gita

43.

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

44.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

45.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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

48.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

49.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.