Motivational Quotes

Work

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

- Morrow, Lance

Best Quotes about Work

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

12.

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

Reagan, Ronald

13.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

14.

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

Romer, Frank

15.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

16.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

17.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

18.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

19.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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

21.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

22.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

23.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

24.

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

25.

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

Butler, Samuel

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Robert Morley

29.

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

Benchley, Robert

30.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

31.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

32.

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

33.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

34.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

35.

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

Allen, James

36.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

37.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

38.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

43.

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

Marquis, Don

44.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

46.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

47.

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

48.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

49.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

50.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen