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

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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.

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

Foster, Jodie

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

10.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

11.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

12.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

13.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

14.

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

Maurois, Andre

15.

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

16.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

17.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

20.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

21.

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

22.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

23.

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

Herbert, George

24.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

25.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

26.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

27.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

28.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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

Bible

30.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

31.

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

Barzan, Gerald

32.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

33.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

34.

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

Proverb

35.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

36.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

37.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

38.

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

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

40.

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

41.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

43.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

45.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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

47.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

49.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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