Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

1.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

2.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

3.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

4.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

5.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

6.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

7.

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

Richard Bach

8.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

9.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

10.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

11.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

12.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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

Carty, Margaret

14.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

15.

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

16.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

17.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

19.

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

Pavlova, Anna

20.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

21.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

22.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

23.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

24.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

25.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

26.

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

Bible

27.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

28.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

29.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

34.

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

Riley, Pat

35.

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?

Getty, J. Paul

36.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

37.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

38.

Work is a four letter word!

39.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

41.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

42.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

43.

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

Kemp, Jack

44.

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

45.

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

Halas, George

46.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

47.

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

48.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

49.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

50.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough