Motivational Quotes

Work

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Work

1.

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

Confucius

2.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

3.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

4.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

5.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

6.

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

7.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

8.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

9.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

10.

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

Ogden Nash

11.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

12.

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

13.

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

Butler, Samuel

14.

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

15.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

16.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Devine, Dan

20.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

21.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

22.

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

Peter Drucker

23.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

24.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

25.

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

26.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

27.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

28.

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

Baldwin, James

29.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

30.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

31.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

32.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

33.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

34.

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

Book, William Frederick

35.

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

36.

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

37.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

38.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

39.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

40.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

41.

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

Gorky, Maxim

42.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

43.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

44.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

45.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

46.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

47.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

48.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

50.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.