Motivational Quotes

Work

The work praises the man.

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Work

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Slick, Grace

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

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

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

10.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

11.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

12.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

13.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

...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

16.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

17.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

22.

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.

23.

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

Riley, Pat

24.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

25.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

28.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

29.

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

Huxley, Aldous

30.

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

Mitchell, Warren

31.

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

Herbert, George

32.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

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

34.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

35.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

36.

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

Ford, Henry

37.

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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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

39.

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

40.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

41.

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

Austen, Jane

42.

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

43.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

44.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

45.

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

Parkinson's Law

46.

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

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

48.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

49.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

50.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton