Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

Michelangelo

11.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

12.

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.

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.

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

15.

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

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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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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

18.

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

Howard Newton

19.

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

20.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

21.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

22.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

23.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

24.

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

Thomas A. Edison

25.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

26.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

27.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

28.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

29.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

30.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

31.

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

32.

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

Butler, Samuel

33.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

34.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

35.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

36.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

37.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

38.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

43.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

44.

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

Bible

45.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

46.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

47.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

48.

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

Frost, Robert

49.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

50.

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

Hubbard, Elbert