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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

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

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

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

10.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

13.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

14.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

15.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

16.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

17.

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

Thomas A. Edison

18.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

19.

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

20.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

21.

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

Baldwin, James

22.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

23.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

24.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

25.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

26.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

27.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

29.

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

Reagan, Ronald

30.

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

31.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

32.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

33.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

34.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

35.

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

Proverb, American

36.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

37.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

38.

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

39.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

40.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

41.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

42.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

43.

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

Slick, Grace

44.

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

45.

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

Benchley, Robert

46.

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

47.

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

48.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

49.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

50.

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