Quotes About Work
Great quotes about work that is both inspirational and humorous. Work is an interesting subject to debate seeing that many would assume that we all need to work but it is how work is defined within the psychic makeup that makes us different. related- quotes about business. . . teamwork quotes. . . quotes on performance. . . motivational sayings. . . ability quotes and sayings. May these inspirational quotes give you words to consider when you think about your work and how you do it."When you are in any contest you should work as if there were, to the very last minute, a chance to lose it." Dwight Eisenhower
"Do more than dream: work." William Arthur Ward
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." Alexander Graham Bell
"If you won't work, you shan't eat." Vietnamese Proverb
"The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work." Dr. Wayne Dyer
"When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it." W. Clement Stone
"A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job." Zig Ziglar
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." Albert Einstein
"I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. 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." Helen Keller
"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more." Jonas Salk
"I've always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got." Alan Bond
"Work is something you do when you have no other choice." Byron Pulsifer
"Work is to feed, and secure while fun is to revitalize the spirit so that work can be better tolerated." Byron Pulsifer
"I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile." Walter Chrysler
"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life." Wayne Dyer
"Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation." Plato
"If you don't have a purpose, there's an emptiness. Working gives you a sense of forward motion." Tina Sloan, Changing Shoes
"As far as work goes, maybe instead of changing jobs, I should be changing the way I am doing my job." Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?
"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." Vince Lombardi
"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work." Peter F. Drucker
"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." Theodore Roosevelt
"There is no substitute for hard work." Thomas Edison
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"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else." Tom Peters"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it." Henry David Thoreau
"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%." Andrew Carnegie
"Nothing will work unless you do." Maya Angelou
"Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it's done right." Walt Disney
"If you don't like who you work with, go work with somebody else." Wally Amos
"I learned the value of hard work by working hard." Margaret Mead
"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something." Henry Ford
"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work." Richard Bach
"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition." Elbert Hubbard
"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success." Louisa May Alcott
"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities." Dale Carnegie
"If you love what you do, then it is no longer work. The money you earn is secondary when you love your work." Catherine Pulsifer
"The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization." Kenneth Blanchard
"Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe." Norman Vincent Peale
"Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece." Denis Waitley
"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work." Oprah Winfrey
"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out." Ronald Reagan
"Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes!" Milton Berle
"You must judge a man by the work of his hands." African Proverb
"I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results." Michael Jordan
"The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work." Mark Twain
"Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil." John Paul Getty
"For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it." Eleanor Roosevelt
"It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction" Henry Ward Beecher
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." Confucius Proverb
"Many hands make light work." Irish Proverb
"The beginning is the most important part of the work." Plato
"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work." Calvin Coolidge
"What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. Who was it who said, "Blessed is the man who has found his work"? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work--not somebody else's work. The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man's work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan and sweat under the weary load of toil that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great." Mark Twain
"When you can give yourself to work that brings together a need, your talent, and your passion, power will be unlocked." Stephen R. Covey, The 8th Habit
"I believe you can accomplish anything if you have a strong work ethic and drive." Besim Halef