Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

10.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

11.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

12.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

13.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

14.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

15.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

16.

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

17.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

18.

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

Barack Obama

19.

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

Butterworth, Eric

20.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

21.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

22.

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

Ford, Henry

23.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

25.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

26.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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 secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

29.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

31.

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

Ogden Nash

32.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

33.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

35.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

36.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Peter Drucker

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

39.

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

40.

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

Frost, Robert

41.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

42.

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

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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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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

45.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

46.

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

47.

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

Twain, Mark

48.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

49.

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

Riley, Pat

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.