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

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Jong, Erica

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

Lombardi, Vince

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Fox, Jim

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

11.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

12.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

13.

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

Allen, James

14.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

15.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

16.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

17.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

18.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

19.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

20.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

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

Ogden Nash

22.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

23.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

24.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

25.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

26.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

27.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

28.

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

29.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

30.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

31.

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

32.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

33.

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

34.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

35.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

41.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

42.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

43.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

44.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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.

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

47.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

48.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

49.

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

50.

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.