Motivational Quotes

Work

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Work

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Slick, Grace

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

13.

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

Weil, Simone

14.

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

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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.

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

Stengel, Casey

17.

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

Blow, Susan

18.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

19.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

20.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

21.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

22.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

23.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

24.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

25.

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

Riley, Pat

26.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

27.

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

28.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

29.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

30.

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

Butler, Samuel

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

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

33.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

34.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

35.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

36.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

37.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

38.

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.

39.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

40.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

41.

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

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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.

43.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

44.

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

45.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

46.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

47.

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

48.

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

Huxley, Aldous

49.

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

Barack Obama

50.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John