Motivational Quotes

Work

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

- Mcintosh, M. C.

Best Quotes about Work

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Lennon, John

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

11.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

12.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

13.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

14.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

15.

Work is a four letter word!

16.

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

17.

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

Butler, Samuel

18.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

19.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

20.

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.

21.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

22.

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

Allen, James

23.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

24.

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

25.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

26.

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

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

29.

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

Paterno, Joe

30.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

31.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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

Riley, Pat

33.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

35.

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

Mitchell, Warren

36.

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

37.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.

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

Angelou, Maya

39.

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

40.

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

Shakarian, David

41.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

42.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

44.

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

Keller, Helen

45.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

46.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

47.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

48.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

49.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.