Motivational Quotes

Work

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

- Morita, Akio

Best Quotes about Work

1.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

2.

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

3.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

4.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

5.

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

Keller, Helen

6.

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

7.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

8.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

9.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

10.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

11.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

13.

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

David Shore

14.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

15.

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

Syrus, Publilius

16.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

17.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

18.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

19.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

20.

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

21.

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

22.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

23.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

24.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

25.

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

26.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

27.

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

28.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

29.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

30.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

31.

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

Johnson, Samuel

32.

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

33.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

34.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

35.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

36.

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

Lombardi, Vince

37.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

38.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

Shakarian, David

43.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

44.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

45.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

46.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

47.

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