Motivational Quotes

Work

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Herbert, George

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

Lombardi, Vince

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

10.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

13.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

14.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

15.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

16.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

17.

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

Pavlova, Anna

18.

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

Ogden Nash

19.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

20.

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

21.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

22.

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

23.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

24.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

25.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

26.

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

Thomas A. Edison

27.

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

28.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

29.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

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

31.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

32.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

33.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

34.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

35.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

38.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

39.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

41.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

42.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

43.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

44.

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

Berra, Yogi

45.

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

Maurois, Andre

46.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

47.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

48.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

50.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.