Motivational Quotes

Work

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

- Wilfred A. Peterson

Best Quotes about Work

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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

Holtz, Lou

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

10.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

11.

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

12.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

13.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

14.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

15.

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

Jong, Erica

16.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

17.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

18.

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

Thomas A. Edison

19.

Work is a four letter word!

20.

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

Herold, Don

21.

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

22.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

23.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

24.

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

25.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

26.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

27.

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

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

30.

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

Sam Ewing

31.

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

Butterworth, Eric

32.

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

Ford, Henry

33.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

35.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

36.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

37.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

41.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

43.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

44.

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

45.

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

48.

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

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.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou