Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Dodge, B.

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.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Confucius

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

Wilde, Oscar

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Halas, George

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

Benchley, Robert

10.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

11.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

13.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

14.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

16.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

17.

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

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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.

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

21.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

23.

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

Jones, Beverly

24.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

25.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

Peter Drucker

29.

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

30.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

31.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

32.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

33.

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

Barack Obama

34.

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

35.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

36.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

37.

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

38.

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

Rutte, Martin

39.

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

40.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Keller, Helen

42.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

43.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

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

45.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

46.

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

47.

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

Lombardi, Vince

48.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

49.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

50.

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

Rohn, Jim