Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Jong, Erica

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

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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.

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

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

11.

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

12.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

13.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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

15.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

16.

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

17.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

18.

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

Lombardi, Vince

19.

...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

20.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

21.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

22.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

23.

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

Gorky, Maxim

24.

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

Slick, Grace

25.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

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

28.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

29.

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

Maurois, Andre

30.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

31.

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

Bible

32.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

35.

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

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

Keller, Helen

37.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

38.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

39.

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

Gillis, Dobie

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Sam Ewing

44.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

45.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

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

50.

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

Austen, Jane