Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Herold, Don

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

10.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

11.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

13.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

14.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

16.

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

Howard Newton

17.

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

Shakarian, David

18.

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

Syrus, Publilius

19.

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

20.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

21.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

22.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

23.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

24.

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

25.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

29.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

30.

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

31.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

32.

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

33.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

34.

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

LeMond, Greg

35.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

36.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

38.

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

39.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

40.

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

41.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

42.

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

43.

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

Ogden Nash

44.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

47.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

48.

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.

49.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

50.

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

Twain, Mark