Motivational Quotes

Work

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

- Johnny Carson

Best Quotes about Work

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Syrus, Publilius

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

12.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

14.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

15.

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

Howard Newton

16.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

17.

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

Parkinson's Law

18.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

19.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

20.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

21.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

22.

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

23.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

24.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

25.

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

26.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

27.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

28.

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

29.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

30.

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

Pavlova, Anna

31.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

32.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

33.

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

Paterno, Joe

34.

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.

35.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

36.

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

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

39.

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

40.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

41.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

42.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

43.

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

Barack Obama

44.

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

45.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

47.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

48.

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.

49.

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

Gillis, Dobie

50.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.