Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

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

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

12.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

13.

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

Ogden Nash

14.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

15.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

17.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

18.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

19.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

23.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

24.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

25.

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.

John Ruskin

26.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

27.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

29.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

33.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

34.

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

Wilde, Oscar

35.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

36.

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

Fox, Jim

37.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

38.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

39.

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

Keller, Helen

40.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

41.

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

Reagan, Ronald

42.

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

LeMond, Greg

43.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

44.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

45.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

46.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

47.

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

Dodge, B.