Motivational Quotes

Work

A man grows most tired while standing still.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

10.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

11.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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

13.

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

Picasso, Pablo

14.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

15.

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.

16.

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.

17.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

18.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

19.

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

20.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

21.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

22.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

23.

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

David Shore

24.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

25.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

26.

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

David McCullough

27.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

28.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

29.

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

Slick, Grace

30.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

31.

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

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 do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

34.

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

Riley, Pat

35.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

36.

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.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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

39.

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

Elbert Hubbard

40.

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

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

43.

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

Blow, Susan

44.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

45.

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

Oprah Winfrey

46.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

47.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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.

49.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

50.

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.