Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Bible

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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.

10.

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

11.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

12.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

13.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

14.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

15.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

16.

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

Gorky, Maxim

17.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

18.

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

Ford, Henry

19.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

20.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

21.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

22.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

23.

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

24.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

25.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

26.

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

Michelangelo

27.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

28.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

John Ruskin

32.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

33.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

34.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

35.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

38.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

39.

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

Bible

40.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

42.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

43.

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

Baldwin, James

44.

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

45.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

46.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

47.

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

48.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

49.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Mitchell, Warren