Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Book, William Frederick

Best Quotes about Work

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Peter Drucker

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Frost, Robert

10.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

11.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

12.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

13.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

14.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

15.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

16.

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

Devine, Dan

17.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

18.

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

Escher, M. C.

19.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

20.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

21.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

22.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

24.

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

Carty, Margaret

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

28.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

29.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

30.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

31.

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

32.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

33.

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

Thomas A. Edison

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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

38.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

39.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

40.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Mitchell, Warren

45.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

46.

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

47.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Pavlova, Anna