Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

- Prince, Ray

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

10.

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

Ford, Henry

11.

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

12.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

13.

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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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

15.

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

16.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

17.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

18.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

19.

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

Rivers, Joan

20.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

21.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

22.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

24.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

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

Picasso, Pablo

26.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

27.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

28.

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

29.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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.

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

Bible

32.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

33.

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.

34.

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

Angelou, Maya

35.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

37.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

38.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

39.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

Foster, Jodie

42.

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

Sam Ewing

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.

Work is a four letter word!

45.

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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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

47.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

48.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

49.

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

50.

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

Mansfield, Katherine