Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Barack Obama

Best Quotes about Work

1.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

2.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

3.

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

Proverb, French

4.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

5.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

6.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

7.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

8.

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

Sand, George

9.

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.

10.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

11.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

12.

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

Halas, George

13.

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

Keller, Helen

14.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

15.

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

Billings, Josh

16.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

17.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

19.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

20.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

21.

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

Foster, Jodie

22.

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

23.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

24.

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

Ford, Henry

25.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

26.

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

27.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

29.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

31.

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

Weil, Simone

32.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

33.

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

Frost, Robert

34.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

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

Pavlova, Anna

36.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

38.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

39.

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

Book, William Frederick

40.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

41.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

42.

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

43.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

44.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

45.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

46.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

47.

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

48.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

49.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

50.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine