Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Work

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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.

10.

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

Shakarian, David

11.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

12.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

13.

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

Thomas Carlyle

14.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

15.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

17.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

18.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

21.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

...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

23.

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

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

26.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

28.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

29.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

30.

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

Proverb, French

31.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

32.

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

33.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

34.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

35.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

37.

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

Keller, Helen

38.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

39.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

40.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

41.

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

Parkinson's Law

42.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

43.

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

Lombardi, Vince

44.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

45.

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

46.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

47.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

48.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

49.

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