Job Motivation Quotes

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.

Take any job, get started and stop with the video games and pot. I'm not for that.

Originally, I was an assistant director. For many people in that role, becoming a director is the ultimate goal. But, in my case, that wasn't my goal at all. I just had fun doing it. The schedule was hard, but I enjoyed it greatly so I just kept at it.

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.

How many people do you know who love their jobs? Did your dad love his job? Was he passionate about it? Because I am. I love it. I love the relationships. I love teaching. I love the competition. I love everything about it.

All of us who work in law enforcement want to keep people safe. That is the heart of our jobs; it is what drives us every day.

I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.

I like working. I like getting up every morning and going somewhere. Where I do it or what form doesn't matter.

The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.

People really like the fact that I've worked at their job. It gives them a good feeling that I've experienced, even for a few hours, what they do on the job.

I never wanted to take a job because I needed money, and I never have.

I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.

I work to go on vacation. Hopefully, the more money I make, my vacations will get a little longer to the point where they last a year.

In every job, I would justify it in my mind, whether I loved it or hated it, that I was getting paid to learn and every experience would be of value when I figured out what I wanted to do when I grew up.

I don't work at something because I think it's important. I work at things that, to me, are interesting.

When I came to Yahoo! in 2012, I came because I really wanted to work hard. I thought it was a great challenge.

I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.

At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really bored with school, and I wanted to get a job as fast as I could. School was just so easy. There was just no challenge to it.

I work for my personal satisfaction and then for my bosses as well, and as long as I get the thumbs up and get paid by somebody, I feel like I'm doing my job, and I'm cool with that.

The only real reason that I'd have for working for Hollywood is the fantastic amounts of money involved, and that isn't enough of an incentive to really give up the degree of control that I have over my work at the moment with comics. I suppose that's probably why I don't have any designs on being a screenwriter.

It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

The one thing I know through experience ... is that people don't know why they come to work until they don't have to come to work.

At the end of the day, you do this job because you really like working with your team and like the chance to compete as an organization.

It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical insurance claims to work with pride and efficiency, but it's not easy to maintain that attitude.

One classic mistake is when people give the impression that they just want a job, not this job or this company in particular. From a hiring manager's perspective, you're looking for someone who is excited about this role or this company.