Motivational Quotes

Work

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

- Book, William Frederick

Best Quotes about Work

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Proverb, French

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Marquis, Don

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Book, William Frederick

10.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

11.

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

12.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

13.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

14.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

15.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

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

Austen, Jane

18.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

19.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

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

Mitchell, Warren

23.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

24.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

25.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

26.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

27.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

28.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

29.

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

Thomas Carlyle

30.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

31.

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.

32.

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

Keller, Helen

33.

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

34.

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

35.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

38.

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

39.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

40.

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

41.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

42.

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

Elbert Hubbard

43.

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

44.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

45.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

46.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

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

48.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

49.

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

50.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page