Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Wilde, Oscar

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Rohn, Jim

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

10.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

12.

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

13.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

14.

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

James M. Barrie

15.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

16.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

17.

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

Maurois, Andre

18.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

19.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

20.

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

Jones, Beverly

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

23.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

24.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

25.

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

Proverb, French

26.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

27.

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

28.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

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

Henry David Thoreau

30.

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

Rutte, Martin

31.

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

32.

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

Bob Ross

33.

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

Hal Lancaster

34.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

35.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

36.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

38.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

39.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

40.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

41.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

42.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

43.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

44.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

45.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

46.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

47.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

48.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

49.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

50.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan