Motivational Quotes

Work

The work will stand, no matter what.

- Streep, Meryl

Best Quotes about Work

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

Confucius

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

10.

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

Austen, Jane

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

18.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

19.

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

20.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

21.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

22.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

23.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

24.

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

25.

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

Benchley, Robert

26.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

27.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

28.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

29.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

30.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

31.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

32.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

33.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

34.

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

35.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

36.

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

37.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

38.

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

Dodge, B.

39.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

40.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

41.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

42.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

43.

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

44.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

45.

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

Pavlova, Anna

46.

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

47.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

48.

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

Marquis, Don

49.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

50.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.