Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Robert Benchley

Best Quotes about Work

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

Herold, Don

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Robert Benchley

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

14.

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

15.

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

16.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

17.

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

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

20.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

21.

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

Parkinson's Law

22.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

23.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

24.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

25.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

26.

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

27.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

Paterno, Joe

29.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

30.

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.

31.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

33.

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

Sand, George

34.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

35.

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

Frost, Robert

36.

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

Prince, Ray

37.

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

38.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

39.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

40.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

41.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

42.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

43.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

45.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

46.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

47.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

48.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

49.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

50.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William