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

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

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ogden Nash

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

10.

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

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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

12.

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

13.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

14.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

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

16.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

18.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

19.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

20.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

21.

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

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

23.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

24.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

25.

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

Holtz, Lou

26.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

27.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

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

Johnson, Samuel

29.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

30.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

31.

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

Fox, Jim

32.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

33.

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

Austen, Jane

34.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

36.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

37.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

38.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

39.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

40.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

41.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

42.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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

45.

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

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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

47.

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

Confucius

48.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

49.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

50.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.