Motivational Quotes

Work

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Work

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

James M. Barrie

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Keller, Helen

10.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

11.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

14.

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

Benchley, Robert

15.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

16.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

17.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

18.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Shakarian, David

20.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

21.

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

22.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

23.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

24.

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

25.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

26.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

27.

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

28.

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

Lombardi, Vince

29.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

30.

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

Herold, Don

31.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

32.

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

LeMond, Greg

33.

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

34.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

35.

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

Ogden Nash

36.

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

37.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

38.

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

39.

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

Wilde, Oscar

40.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

41.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

42.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

43.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

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

Johnson, Samuel

45.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

46.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

47.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

48.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

49.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

50.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers