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

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Parkinson's Law

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

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

13.

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

Garfield, James A.

14.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

16.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

17.

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

Thomas A. Edison

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

20.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

21.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

22.

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

Holtz, Lou

23.

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

Devine, Dan

24.

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

Blow, Susan

25.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

26.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

27.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

28.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

29.

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

30.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

31.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

32.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

33.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

35.

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

36.

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

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

38.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

39.

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

40.

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

Halas, George

41.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

42.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

43.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

44.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

45.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

46.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

47.

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

48.

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

Foster, Jodie