Motivational Quotes

Work

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

- Peter Drucker

Best Quotes about Work

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

Book, William Frederick

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

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

Foster, Jodie

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

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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.

Rollwagen, John

10.

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

Reagan, Ronald

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

Picasso, Pablo

13.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

14.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

15.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

17.

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

Robert Morley

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

21.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

22.

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.

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

Henry David Thoreau

24.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

25.

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

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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.

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

28.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

29.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

30.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

32.

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

Berra, Yogi

33.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

34.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

35.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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

37.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

38.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

39.

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

Billings, Josh

40.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

41.

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

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.

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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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.

45.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

46.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

47.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

48.

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

Maurois, Andre

49.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

50.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor