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

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

Work is a four letter word!

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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.

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

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

Riley, Pat

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

10.

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

Proverb

11.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

12.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

13.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

14.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

15.

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

16.

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

17.

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

18.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

19.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

20.

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

Riley, Pat

21.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

22.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

23.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

26.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

27.

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

Devine, Dan

28.

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

Book, William Frederick

29.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

30.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

31.

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.

32.

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

Keller, Helen

33.

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

34.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

37.

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

Thomas A. Edison

38.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

39.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

40.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

41.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

42.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

43.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

44.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

45.

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

Bible

46.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

47.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

48.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

49.

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

50.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine