Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Theodore Roosevelt

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Michelangelo

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

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

Keller, Helen

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

10.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

13.

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

14.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

15.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

16.

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

Lowell, James Russell

17.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

18.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

19.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

20.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

21.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

22.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

23.

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

24.

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

Holtz, Lou

25.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

26.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

27.

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

28.

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

Parkinson's Law

29.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

30.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

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

32.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

33.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

34.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

35.

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

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Howard Newton

38.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

39.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

40.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

41.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

42.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

43.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

44.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

45.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

46.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

48.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

49.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

50.

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

Jong, Erica