Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Best Quotes about Work

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ogden Nash

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

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

Hal Lancaster

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

10.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

11.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

12.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Riley, Pat

17.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

18.

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

Riley, Pat

19.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

20.

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

Frost, Robert

21.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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.

23.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

24.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

25.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

26.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

Slick, Grace

29.

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

30.

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

Lombardi, Vince

31.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

32.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

33.

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.

34.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

35.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

40.

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.

41.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

42.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

43.

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

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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

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

47.

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

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

49.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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