250+ Team Work Quotes to Motivate Collaboration

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Nothing will work unless you do.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God to Christ and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

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.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot 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 those who work with joy.

The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live – that is to say for the money – has turned himself into a slave.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover through the detours of art those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

To be a poet is a condition not a profession.

The harder I work the luckier I get.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Without work all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless life stifles and dies.

We work to become not to acquire.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work so most people don’t recognize them.

When your work speaks for itself don’t interrupt.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work ask him: ‘Whose?’

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

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?

Work alone is noble.

I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

I’ve learned from experience that if you work harder at it and apply more energy and time to it and more consistency you get a better result. It comes from the work.

And to get real work experience you need a job and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

For me every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working I’m not sure where I’m going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn’t do it.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given a chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

You’re blessed if you have the strength to work.

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

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Management must manage!

Nothing is work unless you’d rather be doing something else.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you’ve lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there you can deal with that change.

Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

If Botticelli were alive today he’d be working for Vogue.

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking and worrying and sweating for them.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

By the work one knows the workman.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Work isn’t to make money you work to justify life.

After two weeks of working on a project you know whether it will work or not.

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn’t end. There’s other ways to make money better jobs.

O man you are busy working for the world and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can the money will come.

Because I have work to care about it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

Work look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

As I understand it sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.

I’m working myself to death.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.

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

It’s easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don’t change your field changes around you.

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

There is a vast world of work out there in this country where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone – many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

We are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic it takes sweat determination and hard work.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy selfish and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

If you always put limit on everything you do physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus and you must not stay there you must go beyond them.

Let us touch the dying the poor the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Formula for success: rise early work hard strike oil.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10000 ways that won’t work.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists when his work is done his aim fulfilled they will say: we did it ourselves.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another but let him work diligently and build one for himself thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

The price of success is hard work dedication to the job at hand and the determination that whether we win or lose we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation hard work and learning from failure.

Before you start some work always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions go ahead.

Some people see things that are and ask Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

The miracle is not that we do this work but that we are happy to do it.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

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.

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 you do. If you haven’t found it yet keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart you’ll know when you find it.

Be true to your work your word and your friend.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it.

If you want to make peace with your enemy you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Follow your dreams work hard practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

If you want to build a ship don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

Thunder is good thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be ideal in every respect and then they work every day toward their distant vision that goal or purpose.

Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there you can move mountains.

If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.

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.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

It’s like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don’t know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It’s like the throw of the dice.

My share of the work may be limited but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

I had a stick of CareFree gum but it didn’t work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble but as soon as the gum lost its flavor I was back to pondering my mortality.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

I’ve always believed that if you put in the work the results will come.

It took a lot of blood sweat and tears to get to where we are today but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

There are two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group there is less competition there.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

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

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art it’s dead for you.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter taller richer and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone love them with all your soul. When you go to work work your ass off. When you hate someone hate them until it hurts.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody but I figure why take the chance?

Thinking is the hardest work there is which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say ‘We did it ourselves.’

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste it is better that you should leave your work.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work they have the talent to put those men back to work.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart live for it die for it and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

If you go to work on your goals your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

In a very real sense it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

People who work together will win whether it be against complex football defenses or the problems of modern society.

As a cure for worrying work is better than whiskey.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

When nature has work to be done she creates a genius to do it.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed dumb and silent when all else sings together in unison?

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I’m working on the foundation.

I hope the millions of people I’ve touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

Let there be work bread water and salt for all.

Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me he can work through anyone.

I wasn’t really a work conscious type of person.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

The world is full of willing people some willing to work the rest willing to let them.

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

If you’re not willing to work hard let someone else do it. I’d rather be with someone who does a horrible job but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I’m working on the foundation.

Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal.

Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

If God can work through me he can work through anyone.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government to protect liberty – not to run your personal life not to run the economy and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks the ultimate the last test and proof the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Once you start a working on something don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or whether I’m going to fall flat on my face.

Believe in yourself and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities work hard and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Live your life do your work then take your hat.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder the means by which we are translated?

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not as popularly supposed alcoholism it’s egotism.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Four things for success: work and pray think and believe.

I look back on my life like a good day’s work it was done and I am satisfied with it.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work but by worry frustration and resentment.

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

The harder you work the harder it is to surrender.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt fear or hollowness of heart just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour she can hurt you.

And where I excel is ridiculous sickening work ethic. You know while the other guy’s sleeping? I’m working.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance and that in the end progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

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

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I put my heart and my soul into my work and have lost my mind in the process.

I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top but should get you pretty near.

We’re going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I’m going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it it’s worth a fortune. I’ll make this a work of magic warlock art.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.