Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Best Quotes about Work

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Herbert, George

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

13.

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

14.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

15.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

16.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

17.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

18.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

19.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

20.

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

Thomas A. Edison

21.

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

22.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

23.

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

Proverb, American

24.

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

25.

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

26.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

27.

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

Kemp, Jack

28.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

29.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

30.

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

Garfield, James A.

31.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

32.

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

Thomas A. Edison

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

37.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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 --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.

39.

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

Ogden Nash

40.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

41.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

42.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.