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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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.

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

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

10.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

11.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

13.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

14.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

15.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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

17.

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

Lowell, James Russell

18.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

19.

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

Romer, Frank

20.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

21.

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

22.

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

Thomas A. Edison

23.

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

24.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

25.

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

Marquis, Don

26.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

29.

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

Bhagavad Gita

30.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

31.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

32.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

33.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

34.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

35.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

36.

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

37.

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

Riley, Pat

38.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

40.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

41.

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

42.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

43.

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

Foster, Jodie

44.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

45.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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

47.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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