Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Jobs

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Anonymous

If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.
Common Proverb

Two can live as cheaply as one – if they both have good jobs.
Laurence J. Peter (1919–90) Canadian-born American Educator, Author

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
B. C. Forbes (1880–1954) Scottish-born American Journalist, Publisher

Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
Indian Proverb

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) American Head of State

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American Businessperson, Engineer

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (b.1940) American Self-Help Author

Professionalism: It’s not the job you do, It’s how you do the job.
Indian Proverb

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) Scottish Novelist, Dramatist

If you don’t get a kick out of the job you’re doing you’d better hunt for another one.
Samuel M. Vauclain (1856–1940) American Engineer, Industrialist

God will forgive me; that’s his business
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German Poet, Writer

It’s not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It’s my job not to de-motivate them.
Lou Holtz (1893–1980) American Stage Performer

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, “How is the president?”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American Actor, Rancher, Humorist

The job of the poet is to render the world—to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
Mark Van Doren (1894–1972) American Poet, Writer, Critic

I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody’s performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with high-pressure jobs but to embrace that kind of physical response, enjoy it, get into it. That’s the first real ticket to being a performer who thinks exceptionally.
John Eliot (b.1971) American Psychologist, Academic

My job is never work—the only time it seems like work is when I’d rather be doing something else.
Unknown

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
Samuel Goldwyn (1879–1974) Polish-born American Film Producer, Businessperson

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright

Monday is a lame way to spend 1/7 of your life.
Unknown

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
Unknown

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Fred Astaire (1899–1987) American Actor, Dancer, Singer

My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.
Bill Gates (b.1955) American Businessperson, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Author

It’s the job that’s never started takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) British Scholar, Author

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.
Eric Butterworth (1916–2003) American Spirituality Writer

The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.
George W. Bush (b.1946) American Head of State, Businessperson

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
George Jean Nathan (1882–1958) American Drama Critic, Editor

Happiness is an inside job
William Arthur Ward (1921–94) American Author

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Ogden Nash (1902–71) American Writer of Sophisticated Light Verse

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