Motivational Quotes

Work

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Work

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Parkinson, Joseph

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Berra, Yogi

10.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

12.

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

Ogden Nash

13.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

17.

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

Maurois, Andre

18.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

19.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

20.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

21.

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

Fox, Jim

22.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

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

24.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

25.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

26.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

27.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

28.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

29.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

30.

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

Elbert Hubbard

31.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

32.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

33.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

34.

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

Oprah Winfrey

35.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

36.

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

Riley, Pat

37.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

38.

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

Robert Benchley

39.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

40.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

41.

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

42.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

43.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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

45.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

46.

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

47.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

48.

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

49.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

50.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin