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

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

Hal Lancaster

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Richard Bach

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

Elbert Hubbard

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

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

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

11.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

12.

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

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

15.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

16.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

17.

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

Stengel, Casey

18.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

19.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

20.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

21.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

22.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

23.

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

David McCullough

24.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

25.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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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.

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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

28.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

Paterno, Joe

30.

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.

31.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

32.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

33.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

34.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

35.

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

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

37.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

38.

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

39.

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

Frost, Robert

40.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

41.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

42.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

43.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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

47.

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

Maurois, Andre

48.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

50.

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