Motivational Quotes

Work

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

- Allen, James

Best Quotes about Work

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

The person 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?

Rogers, Will

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

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

10.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

12.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

14.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

15.

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

16.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

17.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

18.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

19.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

20.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

21.

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

Keller, Helen

22.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

23.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

24.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

25.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

26.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

27.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

28.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

29.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

30.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

31.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

32.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

33.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

35.

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

Slick, Grace

36.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

37.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

38.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

39.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

40.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

41.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

42.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

43.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

44.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

45.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

46.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

47.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

48.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

49.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

50.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl