Motivational Quotes

Work

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

Best Quotes about Work

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Herold, Don

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Paterno, Joe

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

10.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

11.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

12.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

14.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

15.

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

16.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

17.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

18.

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.

19.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

20.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

21.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

22.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

27.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

28.

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.

29.

Work is a four letter word!

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

33.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

34.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

35.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

36.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

37.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

38.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

39.

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

40.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

45.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

46.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

47.

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

48.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

49.

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

Allen, James

50.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.