Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Peter Drucker

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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Oakley, Ann

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Carty, Margaret

10.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

11.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

12.

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

Foster, Jodie

13.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

18.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

22.

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

23.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

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

25.

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

Don Marquis

26.

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

27.

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

Picasso, Pablo

28.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

29.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

30.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

31.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

35.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

36.

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

Benchley, Robert

37.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

39.

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

Reagan, Ronald

40.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

41.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

42.

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

Herold, Don

43.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

44.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.