Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Jong, Erica

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

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

12.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

13.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

14.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

15.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

16.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

20.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

21.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

22.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

23.

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

Dodge, B.

24.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

25.

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

Oakley, Ann

26.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

28.

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

29.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

30.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

31.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

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

34.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

36.

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

Marquis, Don

37.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

38.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

39.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

40.

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

41.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

42.

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

Prince, Ray

43.

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

44.

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

Romer, Frank

45.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

46.

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

47.

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

48.

...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

49.

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

Parkinson's Law

50.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio