Motivational Quotes

Work

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Work

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

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Syrus, Publilius

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

10.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

11.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

12.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

13.

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

14.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

15.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

16.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

17.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

18.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

19.

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.

20.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

21.

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

22.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

23.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Howard Newton

27.

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

28.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

29.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

30.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

31.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

32.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

33.

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

34.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

35.

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

Maurois, Andre

36.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

37.

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

38.

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

39.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

40.

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

41.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

45.

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

46.

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

Berra, Yogi

47.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

48.

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

Lombardi, Vince

49.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

50.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore