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

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Herold, Don

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

10.

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

11.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

12.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

13.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

14.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

16.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

17.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

18.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

19.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

20.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

21.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

22.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

24.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

28.

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

29.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

30.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

31.

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

32.

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

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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.

34.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

35.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

36.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

37.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

38.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

39.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

40.

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

41.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

42.

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

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

45.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

46.

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

47.

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

Jones, Beverly

48.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

49.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

50.

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

Picasso, Pablo