Motivational Quotes

Work

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

- Ogden Nash

Best Quotes about Work

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Riley, Pat

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

Robert Benchley

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

Shakarian, David

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

10.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

13.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

14.

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

Baldwin, James

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

17.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

18.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

19.

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

20.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

21.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

22.

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

23.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

24.

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

25.

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

Foster, Jodie

26.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

27.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

31.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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

34.

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

35.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

37.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

38.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

39.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

40.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

41.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

42.

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

Lombardi, Vince

43.

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

Reagan, Ronald

44.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

45.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

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

47.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

48.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

49.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

50.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.