Motivational Quotes

Work

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Work

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

Michelangelo

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

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

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

10.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

12.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

13.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

14.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

15.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

18.

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.

19.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

20.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

21.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

22.

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

23.

Work is a four letter word!

24.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

25.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

26.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

27.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

28.

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

29.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

30.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

31.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

32.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

33.

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

Paterno, Joe

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Romer, Frank

38.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

39.

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

Benchley, Robert

40.

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

41.

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

Gillis, Dobie

42.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

43.

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

Frost, Robert

44.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

45.

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

46.

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

Allen, James

47.

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

48.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

49.

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

Austen, Jane

50.

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

Johnson, Samuel