Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Hubbard, L. Ron

Best Quotes about Work

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

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

10.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

11.

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

Jong, Erica

12.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

13.

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

14.

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

Hal Lancaster

15.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

Stengel, Casey

17.

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

18.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

19.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

20.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

21.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

22.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

23.

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

Proverb

24.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

25.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

30.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

31.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

32.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

33.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

34.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

35.

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

Rivers, Joan

36.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

37.

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

38.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

39.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

40.

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

41.

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

Book, William Frederick

42.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

43.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

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

45.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

47.

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

Barack Obama

48.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

49.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

50.

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

Coolidge, Calvin