Motivational Quotes

Work

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

Diller, Phyllis

12.

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

13.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

15.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

16.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

17.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

18.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

19.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

20.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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

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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

23.

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

Butterworth, Eric

24.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

25.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

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

Book, William Frederick

27.

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

Bob Ross

28.

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

Elbert Hubbard

29.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

30.

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

31.

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

Stengel, Casey

32.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

33.

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

Richard Bach

34.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

35.

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

36.

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

37.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

43.

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

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

46.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

47.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

48.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley