Motivational Quotes

Work

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

- Romer, Frank

Best Quotes about Work

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Dodge, B.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Gretzky, Wayne

10.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

11.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

12.

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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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.

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

17.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

18.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

20.

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

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

Riley, Pat

22.

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

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

Keller, Helen

24.

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

Slick, Grace

25.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

34.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

35.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

36.

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

Foster, Jodie

37.

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

Mitchell, Warren

38.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

Riley, Pat

40.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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

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

Lombardi, Vince

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

45.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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.

48.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

49.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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