Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Fromme, Dr. Allan

Best Quotes about Work

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Gretzky, Wayne

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Fox, Jim

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

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

Twain, Mark

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

10.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

11.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

12.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

13.

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

Stengel, Casey

14.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

15.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

17.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

18.

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

19.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Butler, Samuel

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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.

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

25.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

26.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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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

28.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

29.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

30.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

31.

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

32.

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

Escher, M. C.

33.

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

Howard Newton

34.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

35.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

36.

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

37.

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

David McCullough

38.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

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

Allen, James

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

42.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

43.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

44.

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

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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

47.

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

Foster, Jodie

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

49.

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

Marquis, Don

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.