Motivational Quotes

Work

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Work

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

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.

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

Carty, Margaret

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

LeMond, Greg

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

10.

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

11.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

12.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

13.

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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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

15.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

16.

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

17.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

18.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

19.

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

Benchley, Robert

20.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

21.

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

22.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

23.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

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

25.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

26.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

27.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

28.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

29.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

31.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

33.

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

Bob Ross

34.

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.

35.

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

Oprah Winfrey

36.

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

Don Marquis

37.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Anatole France

39.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

40.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

41.

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

42.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

43.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

45.

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

46.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

48.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

49.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

50.

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

Confucius