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

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Ogden Nash

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

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

Rutte, Martin

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

11.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

13.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

14.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

15.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

16.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

17.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

18.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

19.

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

Riley, Pat

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

23.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

24.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

25.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

26.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

27.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

28.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

29.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

30.

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

31.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

32.

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

Frost, Robert

33.

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

34.

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

Paterno, Joe

35.

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

36.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

38.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

39.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

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

41.

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

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

43.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

44.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

45.

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

46.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

47.

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

Michelangelo

48.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

49.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

50.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel