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

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Howard Newton

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

10.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

13.

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

Thomas A. Edison

14.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

15.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

16.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

17.

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

Johnson, Samuel

18.

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

19.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

20.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

21.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

23.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

24.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

25.

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

26.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

27.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

28.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

31.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

34.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

35.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

36.

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

Riley, Pat

37.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

38.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

39.

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

Benchley, Robert

40.

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

Shakarian, David

41.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

42.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

43.

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

44.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

45.

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

Blow, Susan

46.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

47.

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

48.

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

49.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

50.

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

Drucker, Peter F.