Motivational Quotes

Work

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Work

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Garfield, James A.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

10.

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

Riley, Pat

11.

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

12.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

13.

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

LeMond, Greg

14.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

15.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

16.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

23.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

24.

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

25.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

26.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

27.

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

Holtz, Lou

28.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

29.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

30.

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

31.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

32.

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

Bhagavad Gita

33.

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

34.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

36.

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

Slick, Grace

37.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

38.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

42.

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

43.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

44.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

48.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

49.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

50.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire