Motivational Quotes

Work

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

- Richard Bach

Best Quotes about Work

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

Bible

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Riley, Pat

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

Foster, Jodie

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

10.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

11.

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

Henry David Thoreau

12.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

15.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

16.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

17.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

18.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

19.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

20.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

21.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

22.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Stengel, Casey

24.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

25.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

26.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

27.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

28.

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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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

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

32.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

33.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

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

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Anatole France

37.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

38.

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

Billings, Josh

39.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

40.

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

42.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

43.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

44.

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

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

47.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

48.

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

Sand, George

49.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Blow, Susan