Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

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

Robert Morley

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

Garfield, James A.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Riley, Pat

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bible

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Riley, Pat

10.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

11.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

12.

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

Riley, Pat

13.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

14.

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

15.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

16.

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.

17.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

18.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

19.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

20.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

23.

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

24.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

25.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

26.

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

27.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

28.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

29.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

30.

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

31.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

32.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

33.

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

Bible

34.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

35.

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

Devine, Dan

36.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

37.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

38.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

39.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

40.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

41.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

42.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

43.

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

44.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

45.

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

Oprah Winfrey

46.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

47.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.