Motivational Quotes

Work

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

- Davis, Bette

Best Quotes about Work

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

Foster, Jodie

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Ford, Henry

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

10.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

11.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

13.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

14.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

15.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

16.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

17.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

18.

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

19.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

24.

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

25.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

26.

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

27.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

28.

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

29.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

30.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

31.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

32.

Work is a four letter word!

33.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

34.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

35.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

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

38.

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

Austen, Jane

39.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

40.

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

41.

...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

42.

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

Benchley, Robert

43.

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.

44.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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

46.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

47.

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

48.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

49.

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

50.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia