Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Gorky, Maxim

Best Quotes about Work

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

Kemp, Jack

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Pavlova, Anna

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.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

10.

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.

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

12.

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

Keller, Helen

14.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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

16.

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

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

18.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

19.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

20.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

21.

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

22.

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

23.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

24.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

29.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

30.

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

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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

32.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

33.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

34.

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

Proverb

35.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

36.

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

Paterno, Joe

37.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

39.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

40.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

41.

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

Gillis, Dobie

42.

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

Riley, Pat

43.

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

Lombardi, Vince

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

47.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

48.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

50.

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

Allen, James