Motivational Quotes

Work

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

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

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

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

Dodge, B.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

10.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

11.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

12.

Work is a four letter word!

13.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

14.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

15.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

16.

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

17.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

Romer, Frank

19.

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

Lowell, James Russell

20.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

24.

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

Bob Ross

25.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

26.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

27.

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.

28.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

29.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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.

31.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

34.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

35.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

36.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

37.

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

38.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

39.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

40.

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

Gillis, Dobie

41.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

42.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

43.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

44.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

48.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

49.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

50.

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