Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Work

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

Jones, Beverly

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

10.

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

11.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

12.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

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...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

15.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

16.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

17.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

18.

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

19.

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

Voltaire

20.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

21.

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

22.

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

Parkinson's Law

23.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

24.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

25.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

26.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

27.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

28.

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

Oprah Winfrey

29.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

30.

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

31.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

32.

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

33.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

35.

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

36.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

37.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

38.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

39.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

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

Twain, Mark

41.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

42.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

43.

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

Ford, Henry

44.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

48.

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