Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Romer, Frank

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

10.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

11.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

12.

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

13.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

14.

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

Lombardi, Vince

15.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

16.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

17.

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

Maurois, Andre

18.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

19.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

20.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

21.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

22.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

23.

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

24.

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

Shakarian, David

25.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

26.

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

27.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

28.

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

Riley, Pat

29.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

30.

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

Riley, Pat

31.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

32.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

33.

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

34.

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

Johnson, Samuel

35.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

36.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

38.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

39.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

40.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

41.

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

42.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

43.

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

Holtz, Lou

44.

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

Herold, Don

45.

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.

46.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

47.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Allen, James