Motivational Quotes

Work

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Robert Morley

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

10.

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

Elbert Hubbard

11.

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

12.

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

13.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

14.

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

Book, William Frederick

15.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

16.

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

17.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

18.

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

Parkinson's Law

19.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

20.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

21.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

22.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

23.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

26.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

27.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

28.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

33.

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

34.

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

Oakley, Ann

35.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

36.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

37.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

38.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

39.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

40.

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

41.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

42.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

43.

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

44.

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

Riley, Pat

45.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

46.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

47.

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

Diller, Phyllis

48.

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

49.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

50.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese