Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Work

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Holtz, Lou

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Slick, Grace

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Keller, Helen

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

11.

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

12.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

13.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

14.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

15.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

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

17.

Work is a four letter word!

18.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

19.

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

20.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

21.

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

22.

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

23.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

25.

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

26.

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

Riley, Pat

27.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

28.

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

Allen, James

29.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

30.

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

31.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

32.

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

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

34.

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

Bible

35.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

36.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

37.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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.

39.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

42.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

43.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

44.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

45.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

46.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

47.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

50.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert