Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

10.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

11.

...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

12.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

13.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

14.

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

Bible

15.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

16.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

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

18.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

19.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

20.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

21.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

22.

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

Shakarian, David

23.

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

Robert Benchley

24.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

25.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

26.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

27.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

28.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

29.

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

30.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

31.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

33.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

34.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

35.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

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.

37.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

38.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

39.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

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

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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.

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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

43.

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

Parkinson's Law

44.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

45.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore