Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Romer, Frank

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

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

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Stengel, Casey

10.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

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.

14.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

15.

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

16.

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

17.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

18.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

19.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

20.

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

Slick, Grace

21.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

22.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

23.

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

24.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

25.

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

James M. Barrie

26.

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

27.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Benchley, Robert

31.

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

Riley, Pat

32.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

33.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

34.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

35.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

37.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

38.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

39.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

40.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

41.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

42.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

43.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

44.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

45.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

46.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

47.

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

48.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

49.

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

50.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth