Motivational Quotes

Work

While a person gets they can never lose.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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.

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

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

10.

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

Barack Obama

11.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

13.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

14.

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

Romer, Frank

15.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

16.

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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

18.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

19.

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

20.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

21.

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

22.

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

Keller, Helen

23.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

25.

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

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

27.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

28.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Halas, George

30.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

31.

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

Riley, Pat

32.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

33.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

38.

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

39.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

40.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

41.

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

42.

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

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

Prince, Ray

44.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

45.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.