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

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

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

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Henry J. Kaiser

10.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

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

12.

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

13.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

17.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

23.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

24.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

25.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

26.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

27.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

29.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

30.

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

Marquis, Don

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

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

33.

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

Lowell, James Russell

34.

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

Robert Benchley

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

39.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

40.

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

41.

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

Hal Lancaster

42.

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

43.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

44.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb