Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Syrus, Publilius

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Slick, Grace

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Benchley, Robert

12.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

13.

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

14.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

16.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

17.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

18.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

19.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

20.

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

21.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

22.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

23.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

24.

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

Holtz, Lou

25.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

26.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

27.

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

28.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

29.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

30.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

33.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

34.

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

Robert Benchley

35.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

38.

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

Rivers, Joan

39.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

40.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

41.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

42.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

43.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

44.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

45.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

47.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

48.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

49.

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

50.

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