Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

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.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Parkinson, Joseph

10.

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

11.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

13.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

14.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

18.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

19.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

20.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

21.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

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

Slick, Grace

27.

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

28.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

29.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

30.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

31.

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

Keller, Helen

32.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

33.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

34.

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

Reagan, Ronald

35.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

36.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

37.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

38.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

40.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

Twain, Mark

44.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

45.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Robert Benchley

49.

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

Bible

50.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul