Motivational Quotes

Work

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

- Mcevoy, J. P.

Best Quotes about Work

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

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.

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

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

10.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

11.

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

12.

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

Rohn, Jim

13.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

14.

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

Mitchell, Warren

15.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

17.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

19.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

20.

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

21.

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

Riley, Pat

22.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

23.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

24.

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

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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

26.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

27.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

28.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

29.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

30.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

31.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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.

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

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.

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

Gillis, Dobie

39.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

40.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

41.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

42.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

47.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

48.

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

49.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

50.

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

Lombardi, Vince