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

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Escher, M. C.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Halas, George

10.

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

11.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

12.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

13.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

14.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

15.

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

16.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

18.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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

Oprah Winfrey

20.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

21.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

22.

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.

23.

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

Holtz, Lou

24.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

25.

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.

26.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

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

Diller, Phyllis

28.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

30.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

31.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

32.

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

Sam Ewing

33.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

34.

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

35.

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

Ruskin, John

36.

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

Maurois, Andre

37.

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

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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

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

Thomas A. Edison

40.

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

41.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

42.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

43.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

46.

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

Marquis, Don

47.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

48.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

49.

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.

50.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder