Motivational Quotes

Work

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

- Sam Ewing

Best Quotes about Work

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Rohn, Jim

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Prince, Ray

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

Ruskin, John

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

10.

...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

11.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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

14.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

15.

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

16.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

17.

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

Parkinson's Law

18.

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

Michelangelo

19.

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

20.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

21.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

22.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

23.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

24.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

25.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

26.

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

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

28.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

29.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

30.

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

Allen, James

31.

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

32.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

33.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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.

35.

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

36.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

40.

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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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

44.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

45.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

46.

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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

48.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

49.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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