Motivational Quotes

Work

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

- Fleyer, Paul J.

Best Quotes about Work

1.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

2.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

3.

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

Lowell, James Russell

4.

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

Picasso, Pablo

5.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

6.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

7.

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

Devine, Dan

8.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

9.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

10.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

13.

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

Marquis, Don

14.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

15.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

16.

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

Bob Ross

17.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

18.

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

19.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

20.

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.

21.

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

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.

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

Holtz, Lou

24.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

25.

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

26.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

27.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

28.

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

29.

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

30.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

31.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

32.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

33.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

34.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

35.

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

36.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

37.

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

Butterworth, Eric

38.

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

39.

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

40.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

41.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

42.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

44.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

46.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

47.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

48.

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

Garfield, James A.

49.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

50.

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