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 do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Bob Ross

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

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

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

Robert Morley

12.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

17.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

18.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

19.

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

20.

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

Dodge, B.

21.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

22.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

25.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

26.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

27.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

28.

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

Riley, Pat

29.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

30.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

32.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

33.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

34.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

35.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

39.

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

Carty, Margaret

40.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

41.

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

Ogden Nash

42.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

43.

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

Henry David Thoreau

44.

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

45.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

46.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

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.

48.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

49.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

50.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett