Motivational Quotes

Work

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Work

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Proverb

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Henry David Thoreau

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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%.

Carnegie, Andrew

10.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

12.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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.

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

Nash, Ogden

15.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

16.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

17.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

18.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

19.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

20.

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

21.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

23.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

24.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

25.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

26.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

27.

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

28.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

29.

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

30.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

31.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

32.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

33.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

34.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

35.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

36.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

37.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

38.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

39.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

40.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

41.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

42.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

43.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

44.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

45.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

46.

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

Devine, Dan

47.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

48.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

49.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.