Motivational Quotes

Work

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Prince, Ray

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Dodge, B.

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

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

Book, William Frederick

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

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

12.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

13.

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

Picasso, Pablo

14.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

15.

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

Romer, Frank

16.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

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

18.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

19.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

20.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

22.

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.

23.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

24.

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

Henry David Thoreau

25.

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

Stengel, Casey

26.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

27.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

28.

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

29.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

30.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

31.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

32.

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.

33.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

34.

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

Sand, George

35.

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.

36.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

37.

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.

John Ruskin

38.

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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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

40.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

41.

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

42.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

43.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

44.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

45.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

46.

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

47.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

48.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

49.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

50.

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