Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Oakley, Ann

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

10.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

11.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

12.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

13.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

14.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

15.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

16.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

17.

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

Austen, Jane

18.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

19.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

20.

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

21.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

22.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

23.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

29.

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

30.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

31.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

32.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

33.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

34.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

35.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

36.

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

Halas, George

37.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

38.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

39.

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

Riley, Pat

40.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

41.

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

Thomas A. Edison

42.

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

Don Marquis

43.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

44.

Work is a four letter word!

45.

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.

46.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

47.

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

Baldwin, James

48.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

49.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

50.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack