Motivational Quotes

Work

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Work

1.

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

Gorky, Maxim

2.

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

Romer, Frank

3.

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

Shakarian, David

4.

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

5.

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

Elbert Hubbard

6.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

7.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

8.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

9.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

10.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

11.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

12.

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

Billings, Josh

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Halas, George

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

Howard Newton

19.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

20.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

21.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

22.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

23.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

24.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

25.

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

Herbert, George

26.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

27.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

28.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

29.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

30.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

31.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

32.

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

Allen, James

33.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

34.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

35.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

36.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

37.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

38.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

39.

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

40.

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

Austen, Jane

41.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

42.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

43.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

44.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

47.

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

Garfield, James A.

48.

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

49.

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

50.

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

Lennon, John