Motivational Quotes

Work

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

- Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Best Quotes about Work

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ford, Henry

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

Austen, Jane

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Riley, Pat

10.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

11.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

12.

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

Rutte, Martin

13.

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

Keller, Helen

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

16.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

17.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

18.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

19.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

20.

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

Lombardi, Vince

21.

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

Jones, Beverly

22.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

23.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

24.

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

25.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

26.

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

27.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

28.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

29.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

30.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

31.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

32.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

33.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

34.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

35.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

36.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

37.

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

38.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

40.

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

Lombardi, Vince

41.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

43.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

44.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Bhagavad Gita

48.

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

Proverb, French

49.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible