Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ogden Nash

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

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

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Prince, Ray

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Benchley, Robert

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.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

10.

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

Elbert Hubbard

11.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

13.

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

Howard Newton

14.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

15.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

16.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

17.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

18.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

19.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

20.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

21.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

22.

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

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Garfield, James A.

25.

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

26.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

27.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Herold, Don

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

35.

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

Huxley, Aldous

36.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

37.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

38.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

39.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

40.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

41.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

42.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

43.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

45.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

46.

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

47.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

Riley, Pat

49.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean