Motivational Quotes

Work

Light is the task where many share the toil.

- Homer

Best Quotes about Work

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Blow, Susan

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.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Drucker, Peter F.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

10.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

11.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

12.

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

Howard Newton

13.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

14.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

15.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

16.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

17.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

18.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

19.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

21.

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

Thomas A. Edison

22.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

23.

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

Garfield, James A.

24.

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

Book, William Frederick

25.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

26.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

27.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

28.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

29.

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

30.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

31.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

32.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

33.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

34.

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

Wilde, Oscar

35.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

37.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

38.

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

39.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

41.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

42.

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

Halas, George

43.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

44.

...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

45.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

46.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

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

48.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

49.

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

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary