Motivational Quotes

Work

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Work

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

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

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

10.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

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

Parkinson's Law

12.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

13.

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

Austen, Jane

14.

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

Confucius

15.

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

Proverb, French

16.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

17.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

18.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

19.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

20.

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

Rutte, Martin

21.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

22.

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

Herbert, George

23.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

24.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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

Don Marquis

26.

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

Bible

27.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

28.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

29.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

30.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

31.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

32.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

33.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

34.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

35.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

36.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

37.

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

Proverb

38.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

40.

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

James M. Barrie

41.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

44.

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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Ford, Henry

47.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

48.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.