Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Robert Morley

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

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

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Thomas Carlyle

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

10.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

11.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

12.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

13.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

14.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

15.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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

17.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

20.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

21.

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

Fox, Jim

22.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

25.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

26.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

27.

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

Barack Obama

28.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

29.

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

Garfield, James A.

30.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

31.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

32.

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.

33.

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

Shakarian, David

34.

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

35.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

36.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

38.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

39.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

41.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

43.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

44.

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.

45.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

46.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

47.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

48.

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

49.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.