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

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Hal Lancaster

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

Howard Newton

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

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

10.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

11.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

12.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

15.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

16.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

17.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

18.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

19.

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

20.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

21.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

22.

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

Lombardi, Vince

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

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

Maurois, Andre

25.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

26.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

28.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

30.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

31.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

32.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

33.

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

34.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

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

36.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

37.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

39.

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

Thomas A. Edison

40.

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.

41.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

42.

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

Halas, George

43.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

44.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

45.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

46.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

48.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

49.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

50.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert