Motivational Quotes

Work

Plaster thick, some will stick.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Oprah Winfrey

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

13.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

14.

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

David Shore

15.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

16.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

17.

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

18.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

19.

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

Austen, Jane

20.

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

Angelou, Maya

21.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

22.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

23.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

24.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

25.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

26.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

27.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

31.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

32.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

33.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

34.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

LeMond, Greg

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Maurois, Andre

42.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

43.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

45.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

47.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

48.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

49.

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

50.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor