Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Lombardi, Vince

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Stengel, Casey

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

11.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

12.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

13.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

14.

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

Shakarian, David

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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

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

19.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

20.

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

21.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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

LeMond, Greg

23.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

24.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

25.

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

Herbert, George

26.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

27.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

28.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

29.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

30.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

31.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

32.

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

33.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

34.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

35.

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

Holtz, Lou

36.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Allen, James

38.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

James M. Barrie

41.

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

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

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

Picasso, Pablo

45.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

46.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

47.

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.

48.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

49.

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

Riley, Pat

50.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''