Motivational Quotes

Work

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

- Garfield, James A.

Best Quotes about Work

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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.

John Ruskin

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Jong, Erica

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

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

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

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

10.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

11.

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

Keller, Helen

12.

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

13.

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

Butler, Samuel

14.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

15.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

16.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

17.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

18.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

19.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

20.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

21.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

23.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

24.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

25.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

26.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

27.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

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

30.

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

Halas, George

31.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

32.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

33.

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

34.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

35.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

36.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

37.

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

Book, William Frederick

38.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

39.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

41.

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

Lombardi, Vince

42.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

43.

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

Escher, M. C.

44.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

45.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

46.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

47.

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

48.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

49.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

50.

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